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West Sahara conflict

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[maureen2musings]

Exploring Sri Lanka

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[memories-of-ancients]

Carved ivory jewel casket, Sri Lanka, 17th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[reasonsforhope]

"In a gesture of goodwill and neighborliness, Indian officials transferred 88 ambulances to Sri Lanka counterparts back in 2016.

Now, ten years on, this gift has turned out to be a lifesaving one for 1.5 million Sri Lankans who have ridden and received urgent care in the back of those ambulances and the ones added to the fleet in the following years.

At the time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over the ambulances and Sri Lanka was able to launch the nation’s first national emergency service—equivalent to our 911 or Britain’s 999.

“Today, the fleet size of ambulances has grown to 322. It is used to provide free emergency transportation services to the whole country day and night,” Sri Lankan Minister of Health and Media Nalinda Jayatissa told Modi in a communication last Saturday.

Jayatissa said that national statistics report that 2.44 million people have received care in these ambulances for things like cardiac arrest, stroke, and road accidents. 65% of these were in the “golden hour” where medical care within a few minutes can make the difference between life and death immediately.

“That is nearly 1.5 million lives saved up to now due to your generosity, and continues to save lives in Sri Lanka,” Jayatissa said.

Sri Lanka ranks well above other South Asian countries in the Human Development Index with an index score of 0.750, and out of 142 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum, Sri Lanka cracked the top-third in terms of health industry. That was in 2011, before the ambulance donations arrived.

More modern estimates keep Sri Lanka ahead of other South Asian economies for health industry development, and the island has eradicated several infectious diseases ahead of established targets. Its life expectancy of 75.5 years at birth is 10% higher than the world average, and the country is ranked number 5 on the World Giving Index which ranks charitable behavior and gestures among the population."

-via Good News Network

[celestialmacros]

Sri Lanka Weevil (Myllocerus undecimpustulatus)

May 12, 2024

Palma Sola Botanical Park, Bradenton, Florida

[drinksss]

more country flags as beasts

[crabs-brencil]

sinhala miku! she's wearing a kandyan osari here, which is typically seen as the more traditional/old fashioned way to drape

bonus neighbourhood uncle miku <3

[snototter]

A changeable hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

by Miguel Martí

[inatungulates]

Northern red muntjac Muntiacus vaginalis

Observed by myworldofbirdphotography, CC BY-NC

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[irisofceylonphotography]

𝙻𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝'𝚜 𝙳𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚃𝚘𝚞𝚌𝚑 . . . 🖤🩶

[iko66]

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

[psikonauti]

Elephant in Yala, Sri Lanka

Photographed by Thilina Kaluthotage 

[kedreeva]

Hiii! I visited Sri Lanka recently and saw many people peacocks! I tried to take pictures for you, but i pretty much failed😅

They have these signs that i think you might like though:

I love it!! I have one on my back door that reads beware of peacock... I think people think it's a joke, but Bug is in here!

DID YOU KNOW? Sri Lankan peafowl have their own locality name (it's treated as a subspecies by peafowl folks but not recognized as a subspecies... yet), Pavo cristatus singhalensis? They have a different look to them than typical Pavo cristatus. You can actually see it a little in your first pic; the barring is brighter, with paler brown between the black, giving them an almost black and white barring instead of black and brown. They also tend to have bigger white facial skin patches, brighter oranges on their primaries, and a bluer sheen to neck, black wing feathers, and train feathers than normal, often lacking or having a reduced red sheen on fresh feathers. They're really pretty birds! It's very cool you got to see them in person!