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Experts assess Sri Lankan species for Global Red List

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IUCN Red Listing.

They included Dr.

Sanjay Molur, Dr.

Neil Ashley Cox, Marcelo Fabio Tognelli, Philip Michael Bowles and Claudine Gibson.

The latter had specifically visited Sri Lanka for the assessment.Almost all the Sri Lanka experts working on reptiles were present at this workshop.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, herpetologist Mendis Wickremasinghe said this kind of assessment was important as there was an extinction crisis Sri Lanka reptiles faced.

The checklist of reptiles consists of 155 species in 1993 but by 2012, it grew upto 211, with half of them endemic to Sri Lanka.

It keeps on ticking.

However, due to habitat loss and other key reasons, Sri Lanka reptiles are becoming rarer.




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