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Trees & air quality in Sri Lanka
How much tree cover Sri Lanka's major cities have, what their air quality is right now, and how many more trees each one needs. Every report covers the same 2 km area, so the cities compare like for like.
- Cities tracked
- 5
- National forest cover
- 34.0%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- Colombo 11AQI 53
5 cities in Sri Lanka
Colombo
2 km around Colombo 11
Tree cover
14%
36.4K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Jaffna
2 km around Chundikuli
Tree cover
20%
19.5K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Negombo
2 km radius
Kandy
2 km around Kandy
Tree cover
74%
None
trees needed
Healthy tree cover
Trincomalee
2 km around Arunagiri Nagar
Tree cover
15%
20.9K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Sri Lanka as a whole
34.0% of Sri Lanka was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. That already clears the benchmark — the city reports above show where cover is still thin locally. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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