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  2. Sri Lankan sloth bear - Wikipedia

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    M. u. inornatus. Trinomial name. Melursus ursinus inornatus. Pucheran, 1855 [2] in Yala National Park. The Sri Lankan sloth bear ( Melursus ursinus inornatus) [3] is a subspecies of the sloth bear which is found mainly in lowland dry forests in the island of Sri Lanka .

  3. Department of Wildlife Conservation (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    Head quarters. The department is headed by the Director General of Wildlife Conservation, with it headquarters located in Battaramulla. The head office is made up of several divisions covering operations and administration under the preview of Directors, deputy directors and assistant directors. Field deployments

  4. Department of Forest Conservation (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    The head of the department is the Conservator General, Dr. K.M.A.Bandara. It comes under the purview of the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resource Conservation. It has limited policing powers in protected forest areas to stop illegal poaching and logging, with the power to arrest suspects.

  5. List of mammals of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Order: Cetacea (cetaceans) The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Name. Binomial.

  6. Kachcheri - Wikipedia

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    Politics of Sri Lanka. A kachcheri or district secretariat is the principal government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka. Each of the 25 districts has a kachcheri. The main tasks of the District Secretariat involve coordinating communications and activities of the central government and Divisional Secretariats.

  7. List of heads of state of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    7), the Monarch of the United Kingdom the served as the head of state of Ceylon, and was represented in Ceylon by a Governor-General. Ceylon became a republic under the Constitution of 1972, and the Monarch and Governor-General were replaced by a ceremonial President. Since 1978, under the current constitution, the president has executive ...

  8. List of birds of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.

  9. Army Headquarters (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Army Headquarters ( Army HQ) is the headquarters of the Sri Lanka Army and is located in the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte. It was established on 1 October 1949 in the Echelon Barracks which was the headquarters of the British Army in Ceylon. It later moved to the Rifle Barracks and then to the Old Army ...