What environmental reforestation efforts are happening at Kubalwela Asapuwa?

At Kubalwela Asapuwa, the monks and lay devotees actively look after an ongoing reforestation push to restore the surrounding hillside’s natural biodiversity.

They have been planting hundreds of native forest trees and shade-giving plants that also bear fruit, and the monastery has, in a way, turned the once barren rocky ground into a living green sanctuary. This whole ecological effort helps cool the microclimate for meditators, and it gives local bird species and small wildlife a secure, undisturbed home in Uva Province.