A cleared hillside close to Haputale, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. September 2017.The island has lost huge areas of jungle and forest to the plantation and timber industries over the last two centuries. Many areas in the Central Highlands are now being removed of environmentally harmful pine trees that were introduced in the 1970s; replacing them with endemic trees in a government-initiated reforestation programme which will encourage the return of undergrowth.
Son of the Morning Light 