SINHARAJA RAINFOREST

The Sinharaja forest is the only undisturbed rainforest

left in Sri Lanka.It is about 9000 hectares inextent. Many

of the plant are very rare. Over60%of the tree species are

found only in the lowland w-e t zone of Sri Lanka. If these

species of trees are a-llowed to get destroyed, the world

would lose themaltogether. So it is important that much effort

is meto conserve this rich, valuable and fragile habitat.The

Sinharaja rainforest is the largest rainforest re-serve in Sri

Lanka.In 1840 Sinharaja became a crownproperty. In 1988

the Sinharaja was made A NationalWilderness area. In 1989

UNESCO included the Sinhar-aja Forest In the World Heritage

list, as the first Natio-nal Heritage of Sri Lanka.The Sinharaja

forest is home to many rare animals,bird,butterflies,insects,

reptiles and trees.Ferns and m-osses grow well as the climate is

hum-id because of He-avy rainfall.