I am a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Forestry, Guangxi University, China. I obtained my Bachelor of Business Administration in Agribusiness Management Degree from the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in 2017 and a Master of Science Degree in Forestry and Environmental Management from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 2019. I also completed a Higher National Diploma in Technology (Agriculture) in 2009. I have been working as a volunteer environment activist and freelance environment journalist since 2005 and my works have been recognized many times; more recently, as one of ten 2020 United Nations Climate Change: Learn Champions in the World by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. My research interests are wildlife conservation and management and nature-based tourism. In my immediate past line of work as a Public Health Inspector at the Ministry of Health, I pioneered the ten steps process for establishing ‘Smoke-Free cities’ against second-hand smoking in Sri Lanka.  My publications include reasons for visitor dissatisfaction with tourism experiences, Human-Elephant Conflict, and illegal capture and internal trade of wild Asian elephants. I am currently focusing on studying the feeding ecology of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka.