In 2018, on the 30th anniversary of Dilmah, the Founder Merrill J Fernando uprooted the first tea plant at Dilmah’s Endana tea garden to create a nature corridor linking the Delwala Kanda and Walankanda Forest Reserves. The initiative is expected to connect a 3 km long gap between the two forests which had been separated by tea plantations and human settlements for the past 100 years.