Professor C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke

Professor of BotanyUniversity of Peradeniya

Sri LankaShow presented by Prof Sandun Senarath at the Felicitation Address for Prof Savitri Gunathillake

the Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka on 30 November 2011

Parents who present an excellent scholar to the

country

In 1945

as a toddler

In the orchestra playing the flute, at St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo

(early 1960s)

Madam Gunatilleke as a kid (fourth from left), with mother and two of the sisters

With sisters and their families

Graduation - 1969

With postgraduate supervisor Prof. Peter Ashton and his wife Mary

Early1980’s – Sinharaja, beginning of a long experience

Mid 1980’s – Research at Sinharaja Forest

Late 1980’s – At Horton Plains with research students

Late 1980’s - With the Sinharaja research team

1980s - With a Post-doc from University of Massachusetts, USA

Early 1990’s – At Sinharaja

Training Village Guides

Resource person at the conference on ‘Nature based Tourism’ for the Asia-Pacific

tour group leaders, held at Kandalama Hotel.

2004 - With Japanese friends in Sukuba, Japan

2006 - With students in intermediate zone forests in Illukkumbura

2006 - With students in the Meen Villu, Manampitiya

Teaching students in Pitawela pathana, Illukkumbura area in Knuckles, few years before retirement

2009 – Last field trip - night discussion class after a field day in Giritale