WNPS lecture: Sunela to talk on ‘Rewilding’
View(s):Architect and environmentalist Sunela Jayewardene will deliver this month’s Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) lecture on Thursday, December 14 at 6 p.m. at the Jasmine Hall, BMICH. Her topic will be ‘Rewilding’ – 25 years of land restoration on the borders of Wasgamuwa National Park.
Sunela Jayewardene has long been a messenger of the fact that the Earth’s resources are finite and unless replenished, or allowed the time to restock itself, that we are condemning ourselves to doom. She has committed herself to putting her words into action.
Ms Jayewardene lives at Dunvila, on the border of the Wasgamuwa National Park, straddling the Matale and Polonnaruwa Districts. An area of outstanding beauty, at the foot of the mighty Dumbara Hills and bordered by the Mahaweli and Kalu Gangas, this lecture is her personal story of converting chena lands to Dry Zone forests, to imagine native forests on a heavily distressed landscape — unpacking the common practice of landscaping as an exercise in land restoration. With time, this practice has been identified as, ‘rewilding’ or re-growing of native forests.
The monthly lecture of the WNPS supported by the Nations Trust Bank is open to both members and non-members. Entrance is free.
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