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Project Description

Natural Resources Management Services

(of the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka)

  About NRMS
  Recent Assignments
  Contact details

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SERVICES (NRMS) is a wing of the Environment & Forest Conservation Division (EFCD) of the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka (MASL). The Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka is a government entity that is responsible for the management of the Mahaweli and Walawe river basins and related smaller river basins fed by transbasin irrigation from these rivers. By incorporation as NRMS, we have consolidated more than 10 years of practical experience, gained under the MASL. Our well experienced Digital / Manual Cartographers, GIS and Remote Sensing Professionals, Land Use Planners, GPS Surveyors, Hydrologists, Soil and Water Conservation experts are the leaders in their fields in Sri Lanka.Our, ever expanding clientele base includes, WB, ADB, JICA, DFID, GTZ and many other donor funded projects, line departments and local and foreign based private sector companies.

The Board of Governors of the Natural Resources Management Services comprises

• Prof. C. M. Madduma Bandara,
  Senior Prof. of Geography, University of Peradeniya (Chairman)
• Prof. S.W. Kotagama,
  Professor of Zoology, University of Colombo
• Mr. S.B. Sumithraaratchy,
  Ex-Director of the National Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya.

The NRMS offers a wide range of services such as:

• Creating natural resource inventories and maps
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) assisted data base development
• Development of management information system for tea estates
• Orthophoto development / photo maps
• Remote sensing
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Biological and mechanical soil conservation
• Training on natural resource management
• Sediment and water yield measurements
• Biodiversity surveys
• Environmental education and training.

We also give advice, train, educate and provide technical guidance on land resource assessment and land use planning, soil conservation and sustainable farming etc

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Recent jobs/assignments:

1. Spatial Database Development for tea estates
   
   • Funded by: Council for Agricultural Research Policy (CARP)
   • Local client: Tea Research Institute (TRI)
   • Content: Estate boundary maps, field boundary maps, landuse maps, soil maps, yield data and detailed maps.
   
   
   
   
2. Establishment of seedling reference collection/Remote sensing/GIS/GPS consultancy
   
   • Funded by: DFID,UK (former ODA)
   • Local client : Participatory Forest Management Project - Matara
   • Content: Seedling reference collection, time series of forest cover changes
   
   
   
   
3. Hydrological Monitoring programme in the upper watershed
   
   • Funded by: ADB
   • Local client: Upper Watershed Management Project (UWMP), Ministry of Environment and Forestry
   • Content: Install and maintain automatic weather stations, sediment yield monitoring, automatic sediment sampling.
   
   
4. Reconnaissance survey of land use/land tenure in Hambantota District
   
   • Funded by: DFID, UK
   • Local client: BHC, Colombo
   • Content: Report on Land use/tenure and biodiversity, land use and land tenure maps.

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Contact details:

Manager, NRMS,
EFCD Building,
Dam Site, Polgolla,
Kandy,
Sri Lanka.
Tel/Fax: + 94 8 499727
email: endvefcd@slt.lk

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