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		DIE NEBELWALDER VON SRI LANKA Author Wolfgang Werner ISBN 9789559114215 Pages 95 Size 22 x 29 x 1cm, PB Price US$ 23 / € 19 / £ 15			SRI LANKA’S MAGNIFICENT CLOUD FORESTS Author Wolfgang Werner ISBN 9789559114215 Pages 95 Size 22 x 29 x 1cm, PB Price US$ 23 / € 19 / £ 15 Sri Lanka’s Magnificent Cloud Forests is a product of the familiarity acquired with this unique habitat by Prof. Werner Durong an extended study in the early 1980s, consolidated in the corse of several subsequent visits. It is first work in the Englisg Language to provide a description of Sri Lanka’s ( Tropical montane ) cloud forests, now reduced to smail island patches dotted across the peaks of the central massif and knuckleshills. They are the remnant of a formar extent of a former extent of more than 1,000 sq km, most of which has fallen victin to deforestation for tea and vegetable cultivetion during the past 150 years.

		THE SRI LANKAN ELEPHANT Author Mangala de Silva & Padma K. de Silva ISBN 9789559114390 Pages 278 Size 22 x 28.5 x 2.7 cm, HB Price US$ 75 / € 65 / £ 50 Despite its central role in the culture of Sri Lanka, where it doubles as an icon of biodiversity conservation, scientific knowledge of the island’s elephants remains sparse and scattered in the scientific literature. While it is widely recognized that elephants are dwindling in number, their conservation has hitherto been motivated more by public sympathy for the plight of these magnificent giants than by scientifically designed conservation interventions. The Sri Lankan elephant is essential reading for everyone interested in biodiversity conservation in the island, and especially the fate of its fast disappearing elephants.			A MOMENT IN NATURE YALA TO THE MAASAI MARA Author Athula Dissanayake ISBN 9789555006200 Size 28 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm, HB This book contains a collection of over 124 such images, celebrating the rich wildlife of Sri Lanka and Africa.

		TONES OF TIME SHADES OF ETERNITY Author Pratap Gooneratne ISBN 9789559114239 Pages 310 Size 27 x 38 x 3 cm, HB tones of Time - Shades of Eternity is a personal memoir of the photographic life of Pratap Gooneratne ( 1930 ) . It encompasses more than three decades of wildlife photography in the jungles of Sri Lanka, ranging from the lowland wilderness of Yala National Park to the lofty landscapes of the Horton Plains 2,100 metres above sea level in the island’s Central highlands. Gooneratne’s eye wanders across the melange of the Sri Lanka Biodiversity, from ants to elephants from cobwebs to giants of the rainforest canopy.			TROPICAL PLANTING AND GARDENING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CEYLON Author H. F. Macmillan ISBN 955126606 Recent years have seen the issue of a number of new books relating to the agriculture and horticulture of the topics and sub-tropics, but in spite of this the demand for Macmillan's 'Handbook on Tropical Planting and Gardening’ has been maintained. It is recognised as a standard work which can be recommended with confidence. It is recognized as a standard work which can be recommended with confidence, and a new edition will be welcomed. The present edition has been considerably revised and certain sections have been completely rewritten. It will be appreciated by all who are interested in or connected with agricultural or horticultural undertakings in the tropics, and particularly by residents who are desirous of establishing or improving their gardens. As a guide to those proceeding to the tropics for the first time it should be invaluable.

		OURS TO PROTECT SRI LANKA’S BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE Author Rohan Pethiyagoda ISBN 9789559114178 Pages 156 Size 30 x 43 x 2.5 cm, HB Price US$ 479 / € 395 / £ 310 Sri Lanka’s forests are today a faint vestige of what they two centuries ago, having fallen victim to the axc and unbounded human greed. Her staggering wealth of plant and animal diversity, habitats and landscapes now survive only as shadows of the former glory, Tragically, much of this biodiversity is not vanishing as a result of direct exploitation, against which there is in any case extensive legislation; it is vanishing largely becauseof the indirect effects of the inexorable spread of humanity and the evils which go with it: pollution poor agricultural practices, indiscriminate use of pesticides and herbicides, and tragically a sheer lack of scientific interest.			ZOO SEARCH IN CEYLON Author Heinz Randow ISBN 9558892602 Size 15 x 22 x 1.5 cm, PB Price US$ 6.5 / € 5.5 / £ 4 herr Randow and his wife went to Ceylon to collect wild animals for Hagenbeck's zoo in Hamburg. In this book he gives a full, fascinating account of his adventurous life there, in which he seems to have encountered every kind of wild creature on the island.

		BIRDS OF SRI LANKA A PICTORIAL GUIDE AND CHECKLIST Author Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne Size 21 x 29.5 x 0.5 cm, PB Pages 64 Price US$ 18 / € 15 / £ 12			AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE BUTTERFLIES OF SRI LANKA Author Rajika Gamage ISBN 978 955 50360 09 Size 14x 21 x 1.5 cm, HB Price US$ 23 / € 19 / £ 15

		THE YALA WILDLIFE RESERVES BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY Author Mangala de Silva & Padma K. de Silva ISBN 9789559114338 Pages 238 Size 2 x 28.5 x 2.7 cm, HB Price US$ 85 / € 75 / £ 60 Sri Lanka, despite being a relative small tropical island with an area of 66,000 km2, contains exceptionally high biodiversity indeed, together with the We stem Ghats if India, it is one of the world’s twenty -five Hotspots of Biological Diversite. the island’s biodiversity is threatened by rapidly expanding human population and a steady decline in natural habitats. The total area of the natural closed canopy forest cover has dwindled from 70% of the total land area in 1900 to about 17.2 % at present, placing Island’s biodiversity in immense perill.			THE DRAGONFLIES OF SRI LANKA Author Terrence de Fonseka ISBN 955 9114 190 Size 14.5 x 22 x 2 cm, HB Price US$ 31 / € 26 / £ 20