This is the archival site for the Wildlife Heritage Trust and the ‘WHT’ imprint of WHT Publications (Private) Limited. Subject to copyright restrictions, the site will be progressively updated to offer free downloads of books, papers, journals etc published by WHT, together with photographs and other unpublished material. The site will be updated with new material every Sunday.
Research Highlights draws attention to significant papers relevant to Sri Lanka published in the international literature, focusing especially on biodiversity but also on other disciplines including sociology, medicine, history and economics. To access the paper on which each highlight is based, click on the reference at the end. For instructions on RSS feeds see here.
Research Highlights:
New frogs from the Peak Wilderness
Translocating problem elephants = translocating elephant problems
The Stone Age lifestyle at Batadomba-lena
Now: Risidra Mendis’s attack against Anslem de Silva
This follows on my letter of 27 February 2013 to Risidra Mendis of the newspaper 'Ceylon Today', which should be read first (here) for context. In the wake of that letter, Ms Mendis had promised that she would “be responding to the email sent by Rohan Pethiyagoda soon” but to date (20 April) there hasn’t been a hum from her. She had also justified her shameful attack on Dr van der Poorten with the statement “It is very interesting to see people like … Rohan P defending a person who has openly violated the law”. In this article I comment on another attack launched by Ms Mendis against another respected Sri Lankan scientist and also discuss her personal code of ethics. It might interest readers to discover who it was that has “violated the law”.
