Large-scale deforestation for plantation agriculture in the hill country of Sri Lanka and its impacts

✍ Scribed by P. Wickramagamage

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 433 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6087
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(19981030)12:13/14<2015::aid-hyp716>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

The forest cover in the hill country river catchment areas of Sri Lanka has been reduced to isolated patches on hilltops and a handful of reserves above the 1524 m (5000 ft) contour. Most of the land that was under forest cover at the turn of the nineteenth century is now covered with plantation crops. The districts of Kandy,