CCC launches Geo-tagging system for Miss Earth finalist
Continuing to push the boundaries in reforestation, The Carbon Consulting Company (CCC) recently partnered with Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Earth contestant finalist Monali Dissanayake to conduct an awareness and engagement workshop for children on environment and bio-diversity conservation. Getting the children to visit the site of the unique Hiniduma Bio Link project, The CCC team members were able to engage the children in the project with lectures and discussions, culminating with each of them planting several trees on location.
Further extending the ongoing interaction for each child, The CCC launched a unique Geo-tagging system that accurately tracks the position of each plant through its Geographical co-ordinates and places them accurately on an online map of the area. Photos of the plant and its details can also be accurately uploaded. “Our focus has always been to create better engagement solutions for our stakeholders,” says The CCC Chief Operating Officer Sanith de S. Wijeyeratne. “This advanced mapping system is administered by team members specially trained in Geographical Information Systems, who use the latest technology to provide a far more accurate picture of the gradual expansion of the Hiniduma Bio Link project to our partners and stakeholders. With more corporates and individuals volunteering to join this groundbreaking project, we wanted to up the ante by ensuring that we provide as graphically detailed information as current technology would permit.”
The ‘Hiniduma Biolink Project’ is an effort to establish a biodiversity corridor between the two large remnant disturbed rainforest patches – Sinharaja and Kanneliya in Sri Lanka and to conserve buffer zones around the forest edges using the ‘Analog Forestry’ concept.
Expanding on the launch, Project Manager of the Hiniduma Bio Link Project Lakmini Senadheera said, “We are happy to partner with Monali Dissanayake, one of the Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Earth Pageant contestants and we hope that this venture will create greater awareness of the need to become more environmentally conscious in our dayto-day lives. We, at The Carbon Consulting Company are working towards building a better future for our children and we hope that by supporting such individuals as Dissanayake we can expand our sphere of influence.”