Activists oppose move to fell 196 trees for building Golf Training Academy at Pilikula

Urging the Forest Department to sphere the contiguous ecology astatine the Pilikula Nisaragadhama and its surroundings, biology activists astatine a nationalist proceeding connected Friday opposed the determination to fell 191 trees to physique Golf Training Academy and an overhead h2o vessel successful the play people by the Pilikula Golf Club.

They urged the Club to physique the academy connected the 72-acre onshore of the nine without cutting down trees. They sought Forest Department, which conducted the hearing, not to licence histrion felling.