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      Building Sri Lanka for Sri Lankans

Anuradha Wickramasinghe, Chairman of Small Fishers Federation of Sri Lanka (SFFL) and graduate of Coady International Institute, Canada, founded in 1991 SFFL, a fisher folk based non-governmental organization, which represents 22% of Sri Lanka’s small-scale fisher folk Communities in the island. He served from 1981 to 1990 as the Executive Director of social forestry, water resource management and conservation program and mobilized more than 1,200 community leaders on the forest conservation campaign in hill country and dry zone of Sri Lanka.

Anuradha has 25 years of experience in community based natural resource management. He developed a fisher folk community-based coastal resource management program in 1994 and set up the Mangrove Conservation and Demonstration Centre in Pambala Lagoon, the first of its kind in the South Asian region, along with the Kiralakele Mangrove Biological Garden. Among the awards he has received are “The people based technology award” from south East Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute of the St. Francis Xavier University of Philippines for his development action plan on ‘community based water resource management and the Seacology prize as island conservationist for his outstanding effort on mangrove resource conservation in 2001.