“TREES OF SRI LANKA” – By Des Kelly  “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, is a “quote of beauty” in it’s own right, so it is with great pleasure that I present this most interesting article on the trees of Sri Lanka, via Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, The Sunday Times, of Lanka &, not forgetting Maxwell Gerreyn, of Perth, in Australia, to our many on-line readers of eLanka, wherever you are. There is much talk about climate-change, nowadays. Politicians around the World are suddenly starting to take note about the fact that Mother-Earth is slowly but steadily getting warmer. Better late, than never, I suppose.  Climate-change has been taking place, since the “Ice-age”, I would think, but suddenly, everybody wants to “get on the  band-wagon, so to speak, to put in their two cents worth, on the subject. Getting back to “Trees”, not too long ago, everyone was ...

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