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Extending across 60 acres, Diyasaru Park, is a dreamy opportunity for the visitors in Sri Lanka who need to get more close to the nature forgetting about the heavy traffic jam, busy noises and sweltering heat in the busy city around them. Diyasaru Park is located in highly urbanized area of Sri Jayawardenepura, the administrative capital of Sri Lanka with close proximity to the parliament. This is one of the two wetland parks in Colombo which showcases a range of wetland habitats such as marshes, flooded woodland, lakes and ponds. We are carrying the vision of “Releasing the Stress of Urbanization”.
Diyasaru Park is an ideal place that shows the beauty and uniqueness of urban wildlife in Colombo City, the first Ramsar Wetland Capital City in the world. More than 230 animal species have been recorded from the park including many rare and migrant birds, butterflies, dragonflies, mammals, many types of fishes including endemics, amphibians, and reptiles. You can spot the miracle of urban wildlife in here including fishing cat, Eurasian otter , estuarine crocodile and Purple-faced leaf monkey which is endemic to Sri Lanka. So far five fishing cats have been recorded who residents in the park.
Park offers many features and activities for visitors to have unique wetland experience in the middle of the city. These features include bird watching tower, bird hide, butterfly garden, organic agriculture area, open study area, buildings which are adaptive to the nature, board walks to enjoy the beauty of the wilderness while walking through the wetland, plant nursery, ecology laboratory, ample parking and rest room facilities.
One of our prime objectives is to give opportunity to learn about nature while enjoying and experiencing it. To cater that, we organize many kinds of programs for different types of groups ranging from kids to elderly people. We conduct guided nature walks, special educational programs, weekly and monthly kids programs and wetland workshops for public. We encourage kids and students to use our ecology laboratory to conduct nature based practical and field sessions. We facilitate to conduct projects and research in our park. Diyasaru is the only place in Colombo which gives opportunity to boating in the canals through the lush vegetation while enjoying the urban wildlife. For the bird lovers, we are conducting early morning bird watching boat tours. Further, we also giving opportunity for the ones who love to conduct their meetings, gatherings and other events with the nature theme.
Diyasaru Park is a member of Wetland Link International (WLI)- A global network of wetland centers with more than 350 members across the world and currently serving as the South Asian representative of the steering committee of its Asia network - WLI-Asia.
We are opened every day from 6.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m. for specially inquiries or booking please contact us through, 011-2073550, 071-7284137 or Facebook.
The park is managed by the Wetland Management Division of Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC).
Thalawathugoda
Colombo, Sri Lanka 10116
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