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This is a Sri Lankan Educational blog to help children learn English through animals  they encounter with during day to day activities in their surroundings. The blog brings up a small description, and a few photographs in colour in a very simple and laymen language for a kid to understand, and contains the Sinhalese name(s) as well. However, an important fact to note is that the blog is not sorted according to the biological taxonomy due to the fact that it is created for kids to understand animals in simple language.  Thus, any inconvenience faced by readers who study animals in biological  and or scientific terms is regretted.

Security of Children

A social issue of the present is that children are unable to distinguish between the venomous, harmful and harmless animals found within the house, garden or any other area. Parents are unable of being right behind the kids 24*7. Thus it is mandatory to teach kids on the risks of being bitten or stung by venomous animals.

Education on wildlife

 Another existing issue of todays' children is that they are unaware of names of animals in English and the native language and are unable to identify animals. This also helps children to learn English through wildlife. 

Conversation of Wildlife

The blog aims at conserving wildlife through community education of wildlife which should be initiated from the childhood itself. Early learning of wildlife with a attitude of compassion towards animals may help the reduction of killing wildlife, hunting and poaching. 

A foundation to build up interest for research on zoology and wildlife

An early childhood interest in animals may be a ladder of laying the foundation to a wildlife researcher in future. I was fortunate enough to be so, due to the fact that my parents were always into this. When I was a kid, I didn't have all expensive and sophisticated video games, smart phone games and remote controlled toys to play with, whenever I used to cry my parents took me out to the garden and showed me all kinds of trees and animals. This is exactly what I do for my kids at present. This is quality time spend with nature!

Keeps away your children from being glued to the computer or smartphone 24*7

Wildlife isn't something that you can learn by sticking your heads into the computer screen or smartphone 24*7. It requires a lot of time for observation of wildlife within its natural habitat. This means spending quality time with nature and avoiding neck and eye sprain due to constant staring at the computer, This could easily be done at your own garden or in your school premises or beside the lake or paddy field  close to your home.


                                                                                                                   -     Capt Rajitha Fernando    -

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