Ayubowan!, I’m Tharanga Aluthwattha and I write ‘Butterflies and Moths of Sri Lanka’ to facilitate and popularize Lepidoptera researches and conservation in Sri Lanka.
My effort is to focus not only the knowledge but also, problems, resources, solutions and actions for Lepidoptera research and conservation. The focal point will be on serious entomologists to school kids. Because, though researches begin in higher ends of academia, conservation can be initiated from its lower ends (and I am practicing that).
Being a member of Young Explorers’ Society of Sri Lanka [YES], my studies on Natural History began to shape up with scientific base which was further developed with my studies of Biological Science for Advanced Level.
Entrance to University of Peradeniya [UOP] stimulated and empowered my Natural History studies again while I was reading for BSc. My service as a research assistant to faculty of veterinary medicine & animal science and Department of zoology together with the great academic culture of UOP improved my research experience and conservation concepts. Reading for BSc (IT) at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) strengthened me with knowledge of IT, Statistics, project management and design & annalysis of research projects. I am using all these to protect our natural heritage and living environment. This Website is one of such attempts.
My general research interests include Entomology (Lepidoptera and Odonata), wetland ecology, and Biodiversity and Habitat conservation management. My major research area is ecology, conservation, systematics
and evolutionary biology of Lepidoptera of Sri
Lanka.
My past and ongoing specific researches include endemicity, mimicry, migration, behaviors, and habitat preference of butterflies and moths, plant - butterfly interactions, systematics of moths of Sri Lanka and impact of environmental degradation and climatic change on Lepidoptera and wetland fauna.
Prsently I am reading for MSc in Environmental Science at Postgraduate Institute of Science. If my work is useful or interesting, you can pay me by few words. Any comment is highly welcome. Thank you for visiting!
Tharanga Aluthwattha
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