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Sinharaja Rainforest
November 15, 2008, 5:47 am
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The sinharaja forest in the only undisturbed rainforest left in Sri Lanka. It is about gooohecrares in exlent. Many of the plants are very rare. Ovar 60% of the tree speces are found only in the lowland wet zone of sri lanka. If these species of trees are allowed to get destroyed. The world lose them altogether. So it important that much effort is made to conserve this, valuable and fragile habitat.
The Sinharaja rainforest is the largest rainforest reserve in srilanka. In 1988 the Sinharaja was made a national wilderness area. In 1989 UNESCO included the Sinharaja forest in the world Heritage list as the first national Heritage of srilanka.
The Sinharaja forest is home to many rare animals , birds, butterflies, insects, repiles and trees. Terns and mosses grow well as the climate is humid because of heavy fainfall.

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