Sinharaja Forest

 

Located in south-wst SriLanka , Sinharaja is the country's last viable area of primary tropical rainforest . More thn 60% of the trees are endemic and many of them are considered rare . there is much endemic wildlife , espessially birds but the reserve is also home to over 50% of SriLanka's endemic speicies of mammels and butterflies , as well as many kinds of insects , reptiles and rare amphibians

Mammels

The near-endemic and strict endemic mammels harbors in the are listed below . Strict endemic species marked with an asterisk

1. Asian Highaland Shrew
2. Jungle Shrew
3. Thailand Rounleaf Bat
4. Purple-Faced Langur
5. Golden Palm Civet
6. Layard's Palm Squirrel
7. Travancore Flying Squirrel
8. Ceylon Spiny Mouse
9. Nolthenius's Long-tailed Climbing Mouse

A rainforest can be described as an extremely stable eco-system because it experiences rain for more tthan six months of year , so it is hardly surprising that in SriLanka they are all located in the wet zone areas . Made up of a massively complex structuer of tall trees , a wild profusion of flowers and a vast arrray of birds , insects reptiles and mammels that are all interdependent on each other , there is no end to what may be discoered during a raiforest exploration.