{"id":95115,"date":"2022-07-07T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=95115"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:03:55","slug":"rohan-pethiyagoda-the-call-of-the-cloud-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/rohan-pethiyagoda-the-call-of-the-cloud-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Pethiyagoda \u2013 The call of the cloud forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Rohan Pethiyagoda \u2013 The call of the cloud forest<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uBOaEHSJv2c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Restoring the dwindling biodiversity of the unique montane cloud forests of Sri Lanka through the Agrapatana Montane Forest Restoration Initiative earned conservationist Rohan Pethiyagoda a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2000. Since then, he has worked with his fellow citizens to regenerate realms of degraded farmland, tea and rubber plantations and forests in this mist-shrouded region located close to the world-famous Horton Plains National Park. Today, the journey to ecosystem renewal is taking hold, with the native forest starting to recolonize and dozens of long-absent and new species appearing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohan Pethiyagoda \u2013 The call of the cloud forest Restoring the dwindling biodiversity of the unique montane cloud forests of Sri Lanka through the Agrapatana Montane Forest Restoration Initiative earned conservationist Rohan Pethiyagoda a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2000. 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