Imesh Nuwan Bandara
Obtained the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Degree having specialised in Zoology at the University of Peradeniya - Sri Lanka (2005/2009). Well versed in the practice of Sri Lankan wildlife and community based conservation programmes. To protect the forest and its contents, we need to “protect the people who live in and love the forest”. Therefore I am pleased to work with indigenous people and I am well aware of how their lives are inextricably linked with nature. Hence I am being engaged mostly with environmental awareness programs for school children and rural poor communities in Sri Lanka. Moreover I would like to continue my future research on Ecosystem services and community based biodiversity conservation.
Fundamentally I am a field oriented naturalist. More over, my field experience as a freelance researcher/biologist covers especially the fauna of Sri Lanka. I am keen on studying much of the land vertebrates and invertebrates, their taxonomy, life history, ecology and conservation. I have a good knowledge of the Flora of Sri Lanka as well. Furthermore, I have had experience in working in most of the Sri Lankan National parks, Strict Nature Reserves, Protected Areas, other Forest Reserves and rural village areas across the country since 1998. My research areas therefore extend towards ecology of fauna and flora of Sri Lanka. In addition, I do apply the full force of my knowledge on Sri Lankan Herpetology to conserve some of the most threatened amphibian and reptile species in the island through various research and awareness programmes.
Currently I am working as the field ecologist for selecting GIAHS in Sri Lanka.
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Future research prospective: By what means human be able to protect environment ameliorating ecosystem services through community involvement to upgrade rural livelihood.
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Specific fields of research interest: Ecosystem services, Community based conservation, Endemicity of Sri Lankan animals, local biodiversity and behavioural ecology of herpetofauna and other wild fauna.
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General areas of interest: Conservation biology and management, Rural Livelihood, evolutionary biology and ecology of Sri Lankan wild fauna, Zoogeography - Sri Lankan geology and History of Sri Lanka.
Address: "Ellangaawa" A unity care for community & Nature|
No:1/1112, Hapugoda|Ambatenna|Sri Lanaka. 20136
Fundamentally I am a field oriented naturalist. More over, my field experience as a freelance researcher/biologist covers especially the fauna of Sri Lanka. I am keen on studying much of the land vertebrates and invertebrates, their taxonomy, life history, ecology and conservation. I have a good knowledge of the Flora of Sri Lanka as well. Furthermore, I have had experience in working in most of the Sri Lankan National parks, Strict Nature Reserves, Protected Areas, other Forest Reserves and rural village areas across the country since 1998. My research areas therefore extend towards ecology of fauna and flora of Sri Lanka. In addition, I do apply the full force of my knowledge on Sri Lankan Herpetology to conserve some of the most threatened amphibian and reptile species in the island through various research and awareness programmes.
Currently I am working as the field ecologist for selecting GIAHS in Sri Lanka.
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Future research prospective: By what means human be able to protect environment ameliorating ecosystem services through community involvement to upgrade rural livelihood.
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Specific fields of research interest: Ecosystem services, Community based conservation, Endemicity of Sri Lankan animals, local biodiversity and behavioural ecology of herpetofauna and other wild fauna.
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General areas of interest: Conservation biology and management, Rural Livelihood, evolutionary biology and ecology of Sri Lankan wild fauna, Zoogeography - Sri Lankan geology and History of Sri Lanka.
Address: "Ellangaawa" A unity care for community & Nature|
No:1/1112, Hapugoda|Ambatenna|Sri Lanaka. 20136
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