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Real Taste of Agro Tourism

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  After reading these two phases your heart might be willing to take you there. Windsor Park, CIC Agri Holiday Resort is one of the best agro farms in Sri Lanka that is aggressively promoting Agritourism for both foreign and local tourists. This place world's famous heritage site in Sri Lanka where near Polonnaruwa.Just 250 meters far away from the main town Hingurakgoda. The resort which is situated in a 1.380-acre agriculture farm includes paddy cultivation and a drying Processing facility, paddy husk charcoal production plant, dairy, commercial vegetable cultivation, banana, mango, guava, papaya,ata(custard apple), and wood apple plantation, plant nursery, Home garden, machinery yard, and a compost production facility. Their larger paddy field enriched the beauty of this amazing land into greeny. Once you stand on the one beautiful place middle on the farm as far as you can see, there are only paddy fields only. So their everlasting beauty will claim your mind and body undoubted

Shy and solitary creature

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  The sloth bear is a shy and reclusive animal and is only found in pairs during courting (breeding) or when one encounters a mother and cub. Occasionally, they are also found in pairs when there are seasonal bounties of rich food, as during the season when trees as 'Palu' and 'Weera' yield fruit. It is the only member of the bear family that carries the cub on its back. The sloth bear has to quench its thirst every night and cannot go on for prolonged periods of time without water. Sloth bears use a wide variety of facial expressions and calls to communicate with one another. Sri Lankan Sloth Bear has thick shaggy fur that is black colored. Its ears are lined with long fur and it has a long snout, a long tongue, round eyes, and a large nose, and a V or Y shaped marking on the chest. Its head resembles a domesticated dog.  Their paws are equipped with well-developed hooked claws that enable them to climb trees and dig for termites. The head and body grow up to 6 feet in

Navigation and Emergency gear

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  A hiker can quickly become lost in dense or maze-like backcountry settings, making outdoor navigation skills vital for any wilderness trip. Modern GPS navigation systems are excellent tools for finding your way, but, as with any device, they can fail. Every navigation tool and the device has different strengths and weaknesses. So try to learn multiple techniques and tools for wilderness navigation, so you can get yourself back on track in even the most confusing backcountry locations. The navigation toolkit consists of maps, compass, whistle, watch, pencil, paper, altimeter, and a smartphone. There were perfectly reliable and easy to use in all situations. navigation is best understood and practiced successfully when you incorporate the following into your hikes: • Map and compass skills • Navigational apps or GPS units • Dead reckoning techniques. • Environmental navigation techniques. GPS and smartphones are the most reliable way to make sure that you stay on track.

பிளாஸ்டிக்கை ஒழிப்போம்!! நம் பூமியை காப்போம் !!

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பிளாஸ்டிக்கை ஒழிப்போம்!!  நம் பூமியை காப்போம் !! பிளாஸ்டிக் எனப்படும் நெகிழிப்பொருள் பெற்றோலிய வேதிப்பொருட்களிலிருந்து பெறப்படும் ஒரு பொருளாகும். இன்றைய தலைமுறையினது வாழ்க்கையின் ஒரு பகுதியாகவே பிளாஸ்டிக் பொருட்கள் மாறிவிட்டன . இப்பொருட்கள் பிற குப்பைகளைப் போல் மண்ணில் உக்கும் தன்மையற்றது. ஒரு பிளாஸ்டிக் பை மண்ணோடு மண்ணாகி அழிய 400  ஆண்டுகளாகுமென விஞ்ஞானம் சொல்கிறது. ஒரு முறை மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தக்கூடிய பிளாஸ்டிக் பொருட்களால் விளையும் தீமைகள் பின்வருமாரு:  குப்பைகளுடன் சேர்ந்து எரியும்பொழுது நச்சுத்தன்மையான வாயுக்களை வெளிப்படுத்துகின்றது .  பிளாஸ்டிக் கழிவுகள் புற்றுநோய் போன்ற பயங்கரமான நோய்களை ஏட்படுத்துகிறது.  மலட்டுத்தன்மையை உருவாக்கும் ஹோர்மோன் செயட்பாட்டினை தூண்டுகிறது.  மழைநீர் உறிஞ்சப்படுவதை தடுப்பதனால் நிலத்தடி நீர்மட்டம் குறைய வழிவகுக்கிறது.  இந்த பிளாஸ்டிக் பொருட்களை அதிகளவில் பயன்படுத்த துவங்கி 50  ஆண்டுகளேயாகின்றது . அதற்குள் இது ஏற்படுத்தியிருக்கும் பாதிப்பு நிலத்தோடு மட்டும் நின்றுவிடவில்லை . கடல்வாழ்  உயிரினங்களான வகை வகையான மீன்கள் , சுறாக்கள் மற்றும் கடலாமைகள் போன்றவையின

Through the way of being first ever Zero Plastic University in Sri Lanka

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We always used to say that Sri Lanka is the pearl of the Indian ocean but how could someone believe that the so-called little pearl has ranked as the 5th in the list of countries that release polythene and plastic waste to the ocean? literally, that's the truth !!! The saddest part is we reached this rank without even being one of the biggest consumers of plastic in the world. Simply it means 5 million kg of plastic and polythene wastage per day in our country mostly happens because of the dim view and wrong consumption patterns of the citizens in Sri Lanka. The situation as it stands today is worse than we ever thought, we Rotaract Club of Uva Wellassa University- Badulla come up with the idea to convert our university into plastic-free premises collaborate with zero plastic.lk. Our ultimate goal is to transform Uva Wellassa University into a model university for the zero plastic university concept while conveying this message to the local community as well. When talking about the

Let’s Make Zero Plastic Work

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You know what happens when a bunch of young, non-patient and creative minds clash together without a management? A disaster. But if we could give them what they want and a little bit appreciation? A better world can be resulted. Who are these young and enthusiastic youngsters? US the children of mother UWU!!!! Impressive..!! You’ll never know until you try. ZERO PLASTIC.... Sounds familiar and nearly got tired of listening to the same thing over and over again.... Don’t stop!! Something new is here today. Something that we can do together with a little bit of awareness and effort. Are you ready? We are going to make our university a zero plastic with new ideas and innovations. Yaaaay..!! How many faculties are there in our university? Four. Exactly we are specializing areas that can be used on the way to the zero plastic university. You will be amazed to see students’ capabilities, if we distribute tasks according to our abilities. When we are going to talk about zero plastic, we can’t

පරිසරය දැවෙන්නේ කාගේ වරදින්ද?

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  ඇයි ? ඇයි අපි ප්ලාස්ටික් පාවිච්චිය නවත්තන්න ඕනෙ? ඔයා මොකද හිතන්නෙ? ඒ ඇයි කියලා මේ දවස් වල සිදුවීමකින් ම මං ඔයාලට කියන්නම්. අපි හැමෝම දන්නවා මේ දවස් වල ලංකාවෙ කොළඹ වරායට ආසන්නයෙ ගිනි ගනිමින් තිබූ එක්ස්ප්‍රස් පර්ල් නෞකාව ගැන  දින ගනනාවක් තිස්සේ ගිනි ගනිමින් තිබූ ගින්න මේ වෙද්දි සම්පූර්ණයෙන් නිවලා ඉවරලු. ටිකක් හිත්න්න. ඇත්තටම ඒ නැව ගිනි අරන් ඉවරද?  නෑ , ඒක ඉවර නෑ මං එහෙම කියන්නෙ මේ ගිනිගත්ත නැව නිසා ගිනි ගන්න සාගර ජීවීන්ගෙ හුස්ම ටික ගැන. රසායනික කාන්දුවක් නිසා ගිනිගත්ත මේ නැවේ තිබුනු විශාල බහාලුම් ප්‍රමාණයක් නැවේ ඇති වුනු පිපිරීමක් නිසා මුහුදු බත් වෙනවා. ඒ බහාලුම් වල විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක තිබිලා තියෙන්නෙ ප්ලාස්ටික්. නැවේ තිබුනු plastic pebbles , ප්ලාස්ටික් බෝතල්, ප්ලාස්ටික් කවර, ෂොපින් බෑග්, විදුලි පරිවාරක කේබල් සෑදීමට ගන්නා අඩු ඝනත්ව ප්ලාස්ටික් , වැඩි ඝනත්ව ප්ලාස්ටික් හා ප්ලාස්ටික් ආශ්‍රිත නිෂ්පාදන වලින් කොසටක් ගින්නෙන් උනු වෙලා වගේම තවත් ගින්නට හසු නොවූ කොටස් ලංකාවෙ වත්‍තල සිට මාරවිල දක්වා වෙරළ තීරය ආක්‍රමණය කරමින් තියෙනවා. ජලජ ජීවින් ඔවුන්ගේ කරමල් භාවිතා කරලා තමයි ඔවුන්ට අවශ්‍ය ඔක්සිජන් ලබ