@NewsWireLK An outdated grid is now the biggest obstacle to Sri Lanka's energy future. Clean energy is growing faster than the system designed to handle it.
@NewsWireLK Sri Lanka isn't suffering from excess solar power. It's suffering from decades of underinvestment in the grid while billions were spent importing coal and fuel.
🦩 They don’t see the danger… until it’s too late.
Flamingos glide across our skies with effortless grace, but hidden in their path are deadly obstacles we’ve created—power lines, cables, and even wind turbines.
What looks invisible or harmless to us can be fatal to them.
⚡🌬️ Clean energy and development must be wildlife-sensitive.
Better planning, safe placement, and marking of structures can save countless lives.
Let’s not turn their skies into danger zones.
🦩 If we share the landscape, we must also share the responsibility.
Oil prices are expected to rise further as the US-Israel war with Iran continues to paralyze the Strait of Hormuz and other major energy infrastructure https://t.co/l2J5brgxiG
**“No mercy. Just survival.
A Black Kite with its catch—an Indian Palm Squirrel—in Mannar, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Nature doesn’t pause. It decides.”**
📍 Mannar, Sri Lanka
📷 Nimesha Dhanasekara
#wildlife#BirdPhotography#Nature#SriLanka#WildlifePhotography
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)
📍 Mannar
Flushed from low scrub after ~2 hours of searching in the heat. Briefly perched before continuing its low flight over the bushes.
A nice record of this scarce winter visitor. #ShortEaredOwl#Birding#WildlifePhotography@Team_eBird
#SriLanka central bank’s foreign exchange reserves, net of swaps, fell to 2,298 million US dollars in November 2025, from 2,533 million in October before cyclone Ditwah, and a new International Monetary Fund emergency loan, official data show.
https://t.co/ZiJLxWNmPb
"The most important part of your journey is the step you're taking at this moment. And that's something to continuously realize and practice, because that's all there ever is." —Eckhart Tolle
“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence." - Eckhart Tolle