The Island Urban butterfly garden emerges as national model for conservation and mental wellbeingJuly 22, 2025July 27, 2025Sri Lanka’s urban butterfly garden in Moratuwa – once a dumping ground and now restored by Dilmah Conservation – is…
The Island Vital shift in global positioning of Ceylon Tea and Ceylon CinnamonJuly 8, 2025July 27, 2025“The centre is designed not just as an exhibition site but as a sensory and educational experience where visitors can…
Pressroom | The Island Dilmah – HSBC future writers festival attracts 150+ entriesMay 11, 2025June 14, 2025Last year’s Future Writers winner makes it to Gratiaen ShortlistHafsa Rizvi, Taleetha Wambeck and Sohara Bandaranayake named winners of 2nd Future Writers Programme
Pressroom | The Island UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka: Empowering Businesses to Lead Sustainability in 2025 & BeyondFebruary 16, 2025June 14, 2025The UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka came together for their flagship stakeholder event at which Dilhan C. Fernando, Chairman of the UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka and Chairman / CEO of Dilmah Tea, highlighted the critical role of businesses in steering the world towards sustainable growth amidst rising global challenges.
Pressroom | The Island Merrill J. Fernando:A Friendship RememberedJuly 21, 2024June 14, 2025Speech made at an event marking the first anniversary of the passing of Mr. Merrill. J. Fernando on July 17https://island.lk/merrill-j-fernandoa-friendship-remembered/
Pressroom | The Island Dilmah’s Climate Forward: Energising Green Innovators for Climate ActionJune 2, 2024June 14, 2025Embracing its commitment to environmental sustainability, Dilmah launches “Climate Forward,” engaging undergraduates and postgraduates to innovate green solution
Pressroom | The Island RW’s deep knowledge of Ceylon historyMay 5, 2024June 14, 2025This short speech made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on April 28 clearly indicates his grip on Ceylon history. He made it on an occasion where he was chief guest at an event hosted at the Galle Face Hotel by Dilmah, the well known tea company now into cinnamon. Dilmah has about 700 acres of cinnamon plantation is estates of Kahawatte Plantations PLC it controls and is revolutionizing the industry.
Pressroom | The Island Ali Nena Mansala, a significant milestone in promoting conservation awarenessMarch 25, 2024June 14, 2025The recently-reopened Udawalawe Information Centre, now known as the Elephant Knowledge Walk at the Elephant Transit Home (ETH) in UdaWalawe, stands as a treasure trove for enthusiasts keen on studying paleontology and all things related to elephants.
Pressroom | TEST Random Cat | The Island The Fragrance of Cinnamon at Dilmah TeaMarch 3, 2024June 17, 2025There’s always a lingering fragrance around the Dilmah complex in Colombo. It is generally woody, sometimes tinged with citrus, occasionally fruity, and always pleasant. That’s the aroma of tea, varying only as the seasons influence the teas. We taste over 10,000 teas each week in selecting only the finest teas for Ceylon’s Finest so that lively aroma has always surrounded us, spurring us on in our mission to make the world a better tea since the time my father first started his journey in tea in the 1950s.
Pressroom | The Island Compass for More Human BusinessFebruary 4, 2024June 14, 2025Together with the Board and Team at Global Compact Network Sri Lanka it was an honour to present plans for more sustainable business at Network Sri Lanka’s ‘Compass 2024’ last week. Amidst unprecedented social, economic, health and environmental crises, further complicated by geopolitical tension and conflict, growing inequality and financial stress, there has never been greater urgency to sincerely embrace responsibility in business.
Pressroom | The Island South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) Research Study at Dilmah’s Queensberry EstateNovember 26, 2023June 14, 2025Working to Understand the Impact of Nitrogen Pollution from Ammonia on South Asian Forest Ecosystems
Pressroom | The Island Green Gold: The Discovery of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity by Dr. Rohan PethiyagodaNovember 24, 2023June 14, 2025The idea of exploration for its own sake is associated very much with Western culture. The Sinhala word for this pursuit—gaveshanaya, literally 'to search for cattle' - is evidence of this. While ancient Sri Lankans had names for every useful plant and animal, there was little thirst to discover every single species there is, to describe it, and to give it a name.
