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With saplings and mammoties in hand, Law Goes Green goes to Matara
View(s):Out in the scorching sun, 60 hungry environmental law students of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo toiled hard to plant one hundred saplings in Kamburupitiya, Matara last Sunday. Each year the Environmental Law students organise Law Goes Green and for the 6th consecutive event, the students focused on planting trees.
Setting out from Colombo at 7.30 a.m., they ran into problems with their bus breaking down on the highway. They reached the plantation site later than planned and so skipping lunch, the team headed straight to the field.
The land and plants that the 60 student volunteers worked on were provided by the Sri Lanka Forest Department – and soon the eager student volunteers with shovels, mammoties, buckets of water and the saplings in hand, were hard at work planting the Kone, Na, Goda Paru and Rambutan.
The reforestation project was a component in the 2019 Law Goes Green, which is an annual event organised by the environmental law students of the Faculty of Law under the supervision of Dr Kokila Konasinghe, a Senior Lecturer at the Public and International Law Department of Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. The main organisers of the reforestation component are Dilushi Senavirathna,Kanathy Kohularangan, Heshan De Alwis and Nimesha Gamage.
Law Goes Green represents the aspirations of the students of the Law Faculty to build a better environment for all and along with the reforestation project, a drama competition, Inter-University Debating Competition and a forum on Environmental Protection have also been held.
“This year we decided to expand Law Goes Green beyond the university premises, heading to Matara for a reforestation project and it was an incredible learning experience.We are all grateful for the opportunity to have gone outside the classroom and to have been able to make a positive change in the world,”said Dilushi.
