Small Fishers Federation Lanka

• are barriers to minimize the loss of lives and properties by strong winds and cyclones?

• act as troops working round the clock to prevent the loss of our land inch by inch, but don’t claim any

wages for the job?

• are involved in improving fisheries resources in lagoons, estuaries and associated coastal areas of the sea?

• attract beautiful animals including local and migratory birds and act as sanctuaries for them?

• help the economy. by attracting foreign tourists to our country?

• are a source of various products including fruits, vegetables, fire wood, timber, thatching material, palm treacle, jiggery, alcohol, vinegar, herbal medicine, tannin etc.

You will get an opportunity to enlighten yourself about all this during your visit to the Mangrove Resources Centre. If you are

convinced that, “Mangrove ecosystems are not stinking boggy trash with idling assemblage of trees, but an invaluable resource that needs conservation and management,” then, our objective is fulfilled.

If you leave the Mangrove Resource Centre with this perception, you will surely become a combatant against environmental pollution and the ruthless axmen who attempt to destroy valuable mangroves.

Mangrove habitats are unique in their own right and hence in a mangrove biological garden, a visitor can enjoy the sight of plants that are especially adapted to thrive in that harsh environment together with aquatic and terrestrial animals. Botanical gardens, zoological gardens and perhaps, biological gardens are rather familiar sights. Nevertheless, a mangrove biological garden is indeed a special one among them. Why? The reason is that the mangrove plants have special forms and functions, which functions only in their very particular mangrove habitat. Accordingly, if one wishes to establish a botanical garden for mangroves, he has to take his botanical garden to the mangrove habitat, rather than take the mangrove plants to the botanical garden.

The Kiralakele mangrove biological garden is therefore, the first attempt to meet the challenge of establishing such a park in Sri Lanka. Most of the ant we can see in this locality are not on display in any other external gardens or park in Sri Lanka The Small Fishers Federation Of Sri Lanka is dedicated to exerts its maximum effort to display all the mangrove species and slated animal species sent in Sri Lanka. Understanding how a plant can adapt itself to thrive in such alias environment will amaze the novices who visit a mangrove habitat This will be a paradise where mangrove flora and fauna can be observed’ for the more enthusiastic visitor. Anyone who is keen in learning will see why the mangrove plants can be nicknamed ‘mammals in the plant world’ as they continue to nourish and sustain their saplings till they are ready to accept the challenges of their ruthless habitat We welcome visitors to the Mangrove Resources Centre and the passers by alike, to enjoy the facilities. Yet our target is not the ‘visitor’s wallet’, but ‘his mind’. Our nominal fee is meant to be the contribution of the visitor towards the cost of the maintenance and improvements effected at the Kiralakele Mangrove Biological Garden Our main objective into provide the basic information to correct the attitude of many about the mangrove ecosystems by improving their awareness among the general public and to induce and motivate in the conservation and management of this neglected and yet invaluable resource.