Only 0.5% of Sri Lanka's mangrove forests are remaining. They have been cut down through forest mismanagement and were partly destroyed during the Tsunami. Yet they are vital for coastal defenses and livelihoods.

You can still see a wide variety of wildlife in the mangrove forests, read on to find out what you could expect to see....

Kirala
Water lily
Pond apple
Niyagala
Karan koku
Bariya
Pan grass

Birds
Little Egret
Large Egret
Pond Heron
Purple Heron
Whistling Teal
Little Cormorant
White Breasted Waterhen
Purple Coot
Brahminy Kite
Spotted Dove
Rose Ringed Parakeet
Common Koel
Common Coucal
Magpie Robin
Red Vented Bulbul
White Bellied  Drongo
Common Babbler
Common Mynah
Common Kingfisher
White Breasted Kingfisher

Fish
Orange Chromide
Banded Chromide
Mud Skipper

Butterflies
Common Tiger
Blue Glassy Tiger
Common Indian Crow
White four-ring
Gray pansy
Common Sailor

Snakes
Cobra Naja naja
Rat snake
Green Whip Snake

Lizards, geckos and skinks
Water Monitor

Amphibians
Polypedates cruciger
Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Fejerrarya limnochoris
Euphlyctis hexadactylus

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Niyagala

Blue Glassy Tiger Butterfly

Little Cormorant