Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests

Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
	Sri Lankan elephants in Hurulu Forest Reserve
	Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm	Indomalayan
Biome	tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders	Deccan thorn scrub forests; Sri Lanka lowland rain forests; Sri Lanka montane rain forests;
Geography
Area	47,759 km2 (18,440 sq mi)
Country	Sri Lanka
Conservation
Conservation status	vulnerable
Protected	17,736 km2 (37%)

The Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of the island of Sri Lanka.

^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]