Tropical Rain Forest Sinharaja

Located in southwest Sri Lanka, Sinharaja is the country's last viable area of primary tropical rainforest. More than 60% of the trees are endemic and many of them are considered rare. There is much endemic wildlife, especially birds, but the reserve is also home to over 50% of Sri Lanka's endemic species of mammals and butterflies, as well as many kinds of insects, reptiles, and rare amphibians.

Encompassing the ultimate large patch of number one lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka, Sinharaja Forest Reserve is located withinside the southwest lowland moist quarter of Sri Lanka. Covering a place of 8,864 ha and starting from an altitude of 300 – 1, 170 meters, it includes 6,092 ha of Forest Reserve and 2,772 ha of Proposed Forest Reserve. This narrow strip of undulating terrain encompasses a sequence of ridges and valleys that can be crisscrossed via way of means of an elaborate community of streams. Draining to each the south and north, this particular matrix of waterways circulates the Gin River at the southern boundary of the belongings and Kalu River thru the Napola Dola, Koskulana Ganga, and Kudawa Ganga on its northern boundary. Annual rainfall during the last 60 years has ranged from 3614 - 5006 mm with a maximum of the precipitation in the course of the south-west monsoon (May-July) and the north-east monsoon