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Elephant corridor watch
We fund community-led monitors along the Udawalawe–Lunugamvehera corridor, reducing crop-raiding incidents and keeping herds connected between reserves.
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Wildlife · Rainforest · Biodiversity
A wilder Sri Lanka
A wilder Sri Lanka
for generations to come.
We work alongside Sri Lankan rangers, scientists and village elders to protect the island's elephants, leopards, sea turtles and the rainforests they depend on — one watershed at a time.
Habitats under watch
Volunteer hours a month
Volunteer-led
Our mission
To promote the conservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity.
The Forrester Foundation was established in England and Wales to channel long-term, community-rooted support to Sri Lanka — an island whose rainforests, wetlands and coral reefs hold more endemic species per square kilometre than almost anywhere else on Earth, and whose wildlife is under unprecedented pressure.
We don't parachute in. We partner with the Sri Lankans who already do this work — rangers in Wilpattu, turtle-nesting volunteers in Rekawa, village co-operatives on the edge of the Sinharaja reserve — and give them the operational backing to keep going.
I.
Habitat protection
Rainforest corridors, wetlands and coastal dune systems that give species room to recover.
II.
Species recovery
Field support for elephants, leopards, sloth bears and the critically endangered hawksbill turtle.
III.
Community livelihoods
Conservation only works when the families living beside wildlife are better off for it.
IV.
Research & data
Open biodiversity data that feeds Sri Lankan policy, universities and sister organisations.
What we do
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Programmes running right now in Sri Lanka.
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Rekawa turtle guardians
Night patrols, hatchery care and beach clean-ups on one of the last significant hawksbill and green-turtle nesting beaches on the south coast.
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Sinharaja buffer planting
Working with three tea-growing villages on the northern edge of Sinharaja to replant native cloud-forest species along degraded catchments.
Learn more →Small foundation. Deep roots.
We are a volunteer-led, zero-staff-overhead charity. Every pound raised goes into fieldwork, equipment and the Sri Lankans who do the work on the ground.
£0
paid to staff — pure volunteer energy
field programmes active in Sri Lanka
Google Grant eligibility — growing every quarter
of donations spent in Sri Lanka
Voices from the field
The people who make this possible.
Conservation in Sri Lanka is a relationship — with rangers, with villages, with the species themselves. These are some of the people who share this work with us.
Before the Foundation began supporting our patrols, we had no torches, no radio credit, no proper boots. Now we can respond at night. That is why fewer elephants are being shot around our village.
Nimal R.Community ranger, Udawalawe buffer zone
I came out for six weeks and ended up coming back every year. What I love is that it isn't a short-term project — it's a relationship with the community. Nothing is performative.
Hannah M.UK volunteer, three field seasons
Help us keep the Ruhuna ranger programme running another season.
Your donation funds patrol fuel, camera traps, rubber boots, radio airtime, veterinary supplies for injured elephants, and a modest stipend for the Sri Lankan coordinators who make the whole thing function.