Ceylon Today

Thought to be extinct, the Pini Beraliya plant was found for the first time in its natural environment in Sri…

Dr. Shyamala Ratnayeke’s Sloth Bear: The Barefoot Bare of Sri Lanka had just been published.

In 2018, the visionary Founder of Dilmah Tea and Dilmah Conservation Merrill J. Fernando took a ground-breaking step by initiating a rainforest corridor project. Named Endane Biodiversity Corridor Project, the endeavour kicked off with the symbolic removal of tea plants in a land strip at the Dilmah Endane Estate which has segregated two rainforest patches bordering the Sinharaja Rainforest – Iharakanda Forest Reserve and Walankanda Forest Reserve – for over a century due to continuous tea monoculture. 

A Field Guide to the Bats of Sri Lanka by Prof Wipula Bandara Yapa sponsored and published by Dilmah Conservation is a book that explains everything you need to know about bats.

A 6 feet high garbage dumping site in the heart of Moratuwa is today, a garden full of flowering plants and hundreds of colourful butterflies.

Eminent biodiversity scientist, author, and conservationist Dr. Rohan Pethityagoda’s latest research publication Green Gold: The Discovery of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity was launched ceremoniously on 7 November at Genesis, Colombo 10 – the innovative hub of Dilmah. The event was attended by the Chairman of Dilmah Tea, Dilhan Fernando, university professors, researchers, environmentalists, other guests, and the media.

Dilmah Founder, Merrill J. Fernando "had a vision; to one day develop his own brand of pure Ceylon tea and deliver to the consumer a genuine pure Ceylon tea of quality, at a reasonable price, and also to make life better for the less affluent of the country with the profits. However, at his time, his dream was considered an impossible one, a fantasy even, but Fernando persevered.