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Drought kills nearly 2,000 mangrove seedlings in Sri Lanka

From Lankadeepa · () Sinhala

Translated from Sinhala and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Nearly 2,000 mangrove seedlings planted two years ago near Sri Lanka’s Hamilton Canal have dried up and died during a drought.
  • The wetland has completely lost its water, leaving the ground cracked.
  • Lagoon water reaches some areas during high tide, but does not flow into the site where the seedlings were planted.

Nearly 2,000 mangrove seedlings planted two years ago in a wetland near the Hamilton Canal in Madurankuliya, Sri Lanka, have dried out and died amid drought conditions.

The wetland has completely dried up, leaving the ground cracked. Without water, the mangrove plants have withered and died.

Lagoon water flows into some locations during high tide, but it does not reach the planting site. The lack of inflow has been cited as the reason the seedlings died.

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Originally published by Lankadeepa in Sinhala. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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