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Hatton Plantations and WNPS PLANT Launch 24 km Riparian Forest Corridor
Sunday Island
|December 21, 2025
Turning the Tide - Healing Mahaweli and Kelani Rivers:
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During the MOU signing From Left to Right Pavithra Attanayake - Senior Executive of PLANT, Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne - The Chairman of PLANT, Menaka Athukorala - Managing Director of HPL, Waruna Fernando - Deputy Chief Executive Officer of HPL, K.H.B. Torans Jayasanka - Assistant Manager - Quality Assurance of HPL
Determined to work to turn the tide one stepone acre at a time, The Wildlife and Nature Protection Society's Preserving Land and Nature (PLANT) initiative announced a strategic land partnership with Hatton Plantations PLC (HPL) to restore riparian ecosystems along the source locations of two of Sri Lanka's most critical river systems in the Central Highlands.
Under a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), PLANT and HPL will collaborate to reforest and rehabilitate riverbanks along 24 kilometers bordering the Kelani River at the Dickoya Estate and the Mahaweli River's Hatton Oya tributary spanning the Abbotsleigh, Strathdon, Shannon, and Carolina estates.
These efforts will help stabilize slopes, reduce sedimentation, enhance biodiversity, and strengthen climate resilience in lower landscapes including some areas that sustained acute damage in the recent cyclonic disaster. This long-term effort aims at enhancing Forest corridor networks in the endemic-rich southwestern Sri Lanka.
A timely response to climate-driven impacts in the Central Highlands
This story is from the December 21, 2025 edition of Sunday Island.
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