User:Ecofriendlyme/Anoka Abeyrathne

Anoka Abeyrathne is the winner of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Youth Award [ 2010 for Outstanding contribution to the protection of Environment and mitigation of Climate Change.

The Sri Lankan representative to the Children's World Summit on the Environment when she was just 15 years of age, she has blazed a green trail becoming a British Council International Climate Champion 2010 and being the Sri Lankan delegate to the Youth Forum on Climate Finance 2010 in Shanghai.

Anoka has been involved in adapting/mitigating Climate change and saving the sensitive eco-systems of Sri Lanka since the tender age of 14 years and has replanted more than 12,000 Mangroves in Sri Lanka while promoting renewable energy and organic farming practices. She has promoted green sporting events and is an inspirational and motivational environmental activist involved both the South Asian Youth Climate Action Network and the Sri Lankan counterpart of the network.

Anoka is a Great-grand-daughter of C.W.W Kannagara, the first Education Minister and Father of Free Education of Sri Lanka, Grand-daughter of Manel Abeysekera, the 1st Female Diplomat of Sri Lanka, Niece of the UN Human Rights Award winning Sunila Abeysekera, Niece to Ministers of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, Daughter of a pioneer in renewable energy in Sri Lanka.

Anoka is an a all-arounder with academic and athletic excellence whose passion is nature and the environment. She is an undergraduate of the University of London and the Open University of Sri Lanka.

References:

1.	http://www.britishcouncil.org.cn/climatecool/en/education_ambassadors.html

2.	http://www.britishcouncil.org.cn/climatecool/en/2010climate.html

3.	http://www.sundaytimes.lk/101017/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_03.html

4.	http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2010/11/04/climate-letters-part-4/

5.	http://saysocc10.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/letters-from-the-ground-team-anoka-abeyrathne/

6.	http://drhutley.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/climate-letters-4-anoka-abeyrathne-sri-lanka-mangroves-and-me/

7.	http://un.ukycc.org/2010/10/18/anoka-abeyrathnesri-lanka-mangroves-and-me/

8.	http://www.unicef.org/india/media_5423.htm

9.	http://climateref.com/story.php?id=8897&c=0

10.	http://www.unep.org/tunza/youth/Actions/ActionsROAP/tabid/3776/language/en-US/Default.aspx

11.	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpptlBi9XdY

12.	http://www.nation.lk/2010/11/14/youth5.htm

13.	http://srilankanewsfirst.com/sci-tech/12384.html

14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation#SAARC_Youth_Award