Ceylon Today | Pressroom Conserving sloth bears for future generationsNovember 30, 2024June 14, 2025Dr. Shyamala Ratnayeke’s Sloth Bear: The Barefoot Bare of Sri Lanka had just been published.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Enhancing ecological connectivityApril 11, 2024June 14, 2025In 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.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Everything You Need to Know About BatsDecember 18, 2023June 14, 2025A 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.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom From Garbage to GardenDecember 16, 2023June 14, 2025A 6 feet high garbage dumping site in the heart of Moratuwa is today, a garden full of flowering plants and hundreds of colourful butterflies.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Tracing country’s biodiversity explorationNovember 11, 2023June 14, 2025Eminent 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.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Cultivator Turned ConservatorAugust 26, 2023June 14, 2025Dilmah 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.
Ceylon Today | DailyFT | Pressroom | The Sunday Observer | The Sunday Times Dilmah coveted as ‘Most Globally Outreached Sri Lankan Brand’December 8, 2021June 14, 2025Scoring a hat-trick of accolades at the 2021 Presidential Export Awards, ethical tea company Dilmah has been selected Most Globally Outreached Sri Lankan Brand, Market Diversified Exporter and Contributor to Sustainable Development in the Export Industry for 2019/20.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Dilmah Ceylon Tea to the forefront in AsiaDecember 8, 2020June 14, 2025Dilmah Ceylon Tea (CTEA) (with a US$ 70 M market value) was the only Sri Lankan company in Forbes' ‘Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion’ list released in Aug 2020.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom A compilation of traditional remediesDecember 9, 2018June 14, 2025Dilmah Conservation, the conservation wing of Dilmah Tea Services PLC, recently launched a book on traditional Sri Lankan medicine, authored by the Traditional Medical Practitioner Dr. Palitha Sri Geegana Archchige, along with a first aid box consisting ancient traditional Sri Lankan medicines, prepared and prescribed by Dr. Geegana Arachchige himself.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom Giving them a chance tooSeptember 27, 2018June 14, 2025The Dignified Empowerment and Sustainable Development Centre in Kalkudah in the Eastern Province
Ceylon Today | Pressroom New blends of a known tasteApril 15, 2018June 14, 2025"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea," writes Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Notes from Underground.
Ceylon Today | Pressroom A Fresh Start…Prison Dept’s Support Programme For ParoleesDecember 31, 2017June 14, 2025A majority of prisoners, unless serving a life sentence, return to their communities one day. However, they are highly susceptible to reoffending after release, if correctional authorities do not adopt integration programmes during incarceration and offer post-release services.