Negombo Lagoon is the largest semi-enclosed coastal water body near Colombo, with plenty of natural resources, but subject to potential heavy human impacts from the surroundings, and hence deserves ...

Jetwing Lagoon in partnership with Jet Water Sports recently launched Sri Lanka’s first lagoon based water sports centre at Jetwing Lagoon Negombo. Flanked by the expansive lagoon, the new centre ...

At dawn each morning, Joseph Anton sets off for Negombo Lagoon in his tiny catamaran, looking for his daily catch. Skillfully navigating the waters with a wooden paddle, he takes time to attend to the ...

The government wants to build a tourist resort on Negombo Lagoon that will include a seaplane port. The construction would destroy the livelihoods of thousands of people. Two activists are arrested ...

The Economic Development Ministry in its endeavour to attract one million tourists by 2012 opened another tourist resort, Amagi Lagoon Resort & Spa in Negombo recently. Amagi Lagoon Resort & Spa, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka-- On behalf of the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) collaborated with the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and the Marine Environment Protection ...

Tourism in Sri Lanka – the tropical island nation just a stone’s throw from the tip of southern India – is on an upswing, thanks to thousands of miles of sugar-sand coastline, lush interiors dotted ...

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