Sri Lanka has great diversity of forest ecosystems due to the spatial variation of rainfall, altitude, and soil type. Under the broad category of forests, it can subdivided in to different ecosystems as tropical-wet-lowland-evergreen forests, wet-sub-montane forests, tropical-dry-mixed-evergreen forests, and tropical-moist-evergreen forests but thorny-shrub forests are the main type found naturally in Sri Lanka. Among those forest types Tropical wet lowland evergreen forest plays important role as rainforests in Sri Lanka. Rain forests range in elevation from 0 – 1000 m in the southwestern part of Sri Lanka with a great diversity of flora and fauna.
Rainforests in Sri Lanka
Sinharaja World Heritage Forest Reserve
11,187 hectares
Location: Kalawana, Rakwana, Neluwa
Kanneliya Forest Reserve
5,306 Hectares
Location: Udugama
Beraliya Mukalana Forest Reserve
4,639 Hectares
Location:
4,540 Hectares
Location: Between Ratnapura / Balangoda
4,288 Hectares
Location:
Yagirala Forest Reserve
2,390 Hectares
Location:
Idikada Mukalana Forest Reserve
572 Hectares
Location: Labugama
572 Hectares
Location:
Mithirigala Forest Reserve (Monastery)
368 Hectares
Location: Hanwella
Bodhinagala / Dombagaskande Forest Reserve (Monastery)
347 Hectares
Location: Ingiriya
Kukulugala Forest Reserve
243 Hectares
Location:
Hiyare Forest Reserve
243 Hectares
Location: Galle
Makandawa Forest Reserve
195 Hectares
Location: Kitulgala
