Isolated by civil war, Sri Lanka’s Jaffna proves to be a herp haven

Mongabay
Feb 11, 2020, 5:50 am206 pts
COLOMBO — When a group of herpetologists ventured into Jaffna in Sri Lanka’s north to conduct their first herpetological field survey of the peninsula, they were largely lured by the unknown. This was a part of Sri Lanka that had been largely cut off from the rest of the island by a decades-long civil war,…

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