1. Diversity of flora and fauna ISA 2016
B/Boralanda Dharmapala vidyalaya, Sri Lanka and
Indraprastha International school, New Delhi, India

2. WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY?

5. The existence of a large number of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment.

7. Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

8. Floral Species found in Sri Lanka
The island of Sri Lanka with only a land area of around sq. km, is well endowed with the mother Nature's blessings, one can say. The whole island is a mass of land where the plant life is very rich and vibrant with all shades of Green colour leaves. There are around 3500 Flora species in Sri Lanka and about one quarter of that is endemic to the country.

9. There are four major zones of vegetation types in Sri Lanka.
Wet Zone
Intermediate Zone
Dry Zone
Arid Zone

11. Have Tropical Wet Evergreen forests.
Wet Zone
Have Tropical Wet Evergreen forests.
Examples for plants:
Gammalu
Keena
Hora
Sinharaja Rain Forest

12. Dry Zone Have dry mixed evergreen forests. Examples for plants: Weera
Palu
Burutha
Kaluwara
Margosa

13. Semi-arid Zone Have Thorny shrubs and scrub lands.
Examples for plants:
Cactus
Aloe
Euphorbia
Kaneru

14. Endemic birds of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka wood-pigeon
Sri Lanka junglefowl

15. Sri Lanka hanging parrot
Sri Lanka red-faced malkoha

16. Sri Lanka magpie
Sri Lanka myna

17. Butterflies of Sri Lanka
Ceylon Birdwing is the largest butterfly endemic to Sri Lanka.
Ceylon Rose is a globally threatened butterfly endemic to Sri Lanka.

18. Freshwater fish of Sri Lanka
Cherry barb

19. Extinction
Extinction is defined as the act of ending the existence of a plant or animal.

20. But today man is responsible for 99% of extinctions.

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