President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has recently (13 August, 2025) ordered a one-month suspension of the construction of two wind power plants in Mannar Island in order to review the issues raised ...

Climate shifts and development projects are changing people's lives by threatening their jobs, homes, and traditions. As Daily Mirror Online reported, the Mannar coastline is vulnerable to rising seas ...

Conservationists and environmental groups have renewed their concerns about this project and proposed to authorities to consider alternative locations for projects of this nature The Thambapavani ...

Titanium Sands has locked in a corporate loan as it progresses key initiatives for its Mannar Island heavy mineral sands project It comes after a meeting with government officials in Sri Lanka ...

Mannar island covers an area of 126.5 square kilometers and is surrounded by protected areas such as the Vankalai Ramsar Site, Adams Bridge Marine National Park and Wedithalathiuvu Nature Reserve. The ...

For about a decade now, successive governments in Sri Lanka have sought to tap Mannar’s strong winds to power the island’s transition to green energy. But renewable energy projects — existing and ...

Amid mounting protests from locals and environmentalists, Sri Lanka’s president has suspended a proposed wind farm in Mannar, in the island’s north for a month, pending a review of ecological concerns ...

Residents of a Catholic-majority town in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province called off a more than 100-day protest after the government agreed to halt proposed wind power projects and sand mining ...

Colombo (AsiaNews) – The expansion of a wind farm on Sri Lanka’s Mannar Island could have disastrous effects on the local environment and fishing communities. Thousands of migratory birds, especially ...