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Lahiru S Wijedasa
Summary
Lahiru Wijedasa is BirdLife International’s Asia Forest Coordinator. Over the years Lahiru has worked at different scales throughout Asia with a diverse set of stakeholders. He has worked in government as a Senior arborist at the Singapore Botanic Gardens where he ran a team building new plant collections and managing all the trees over a period of 8 years. As an academic working on botany (describing 14 new plant species along the way) he has worked on forests, termites, and finally wetlands with a focus on peatlands and mangroves. He has also worked as a consultant to private sector organizations, ASEAN and NGOs working on forest restoration/EIAs/HCVs and policy. Privately Lahiru has worked as a hands-on smallholder farmer setting up ConservationLinks Pvt Ltd with is family in Sri Lanka exploring agro-forestry techniques in former tea plantations. In BirdLife he uses the organization's approach of working in countries with local partner organizations to use different methods to bring about forest conservation and sustainable livelihoods in Asia.
Agricultural Science Biodiversity Biogeography Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Freshwater Biology
