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.
DailyFT | Pressroom HSBC Ceylon Literary & Art Festival partners Dilmah Ceylon Tea to launch Future Writers ProgramMarch 29, 2024June 14, 2025The HSBC Ceylon Literary & Art Festival in collaboration with Dilmah Ceylon Tea opened its inaugural edition in Kandy announcing the launch of the Future Writers Program
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 | The Daily Mirror Uda Walawe ETH: A home away from home for baby jumbosMarch 25, 2024June 14, 2025In a bid to spread more awareness among visitors to the Uda Walawe ETH, Dilmah Conservation in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife Conservation renovated the ‘Elephant Knowledge Walk’ to educate local and international visitors on why the Asian elephant needs to be protected
DailyFT | Pressroom Dilmah’s MJF Foundation and University of Colombo Faculty of Medicine unveil Early Intervention ClinicMarch 20, 2024June 14, 2025MJF Foundation, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo inaugurated the opening of the Early Intervention Clinic, a ground-breaking facility dedicated to enhancing the lives of young children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and other developmental disorders
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Uda Walawe Information Centre now an Elephant Knowledge WalkMarch 10, 2024June 14, 2025The Elephant Information Centre at Uda Walawe that has been transformed into the Elephant Knowledge Walk providing visitors with a more visually engaging and comprehensive experience was relaunched this week by the Department of Wildlife Conservation, Dilmah Tea and Dilmah Conservation.
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 Daily Mirror UNDP, UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka renew strategic collaborationJanuary 25, 2024June 14, 2025UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Executive Director Rathika de Silva, UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Chairman Dilhan Fernando, UNDP Sri Lanka Resident Representative and UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka Board Representative Azusa Kubota and UN Sri Lanka Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche
DailyFT | Pressroom Dilmah Foundation extends Rs. 75 m grant to eradicate cervical cancerJanuary 25, 2024June 14, 2025Dilmah Tea, through its Merrill J. Fernando Charitable Foundation, entered into agreement with Ministry of Health and the Rotary Club of Colombo, to restart a national initiative to eradicate cervical cancer in Sri Lanka by 2030
DailyFT | Pressroom Dilmah invites industry collaboration to strengthen sustainability and resilience in Ceylon TeaJanuary 23, 2024June 14, 2025With the climate emergency clouding prospects for farmers globally, Dilmah Tea invited stakeholders in Ceylon Tea to a collaboration aimed at embedding sustainability and resilience into Sri Lanka’s tea industry. The initiative is linked to wider conservation, restoration and sustainable agriculture efforts by Dilmah Conservation, linked to its genesis, nature based solutions program, and its global climate action efforts via the Dilmah Conservation, One Earth Climate Research and Adaptation Centre. The initiative envisages collaboration with Universities and Researchers in strengthening climate resilience on tea plantations through more regenerative forms of agriculture.
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.
