{"id":137,"date":"2026-10-19T17:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:18:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About SriWild &#038; credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SriWild is a free, trilingual encyclopedia of Sri Lanka&#8217;s wildlife \u2014 written for students, travellers, naturalists and everyone who shares the island with these animals.<\/p>\n<h2>Where the information comes from<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Species lists<\/strong>: research-grade observations inside Sri Lanka from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\">iNaturalist<\/a>, checked and edited by our editors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\">IUCN Red List<\/a> (global) and the National Red List of Sri Lanka where we have it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Text<\/strong>: written by SriWild editors; some summaries come from Wikipedia in English, Sinhala and Tamil under the CC BY-SA licence and are credited on each page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photos and sounds<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, each credited to its author under its own free licence, plus photos visitors share through Sightings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maps<\/strong>: \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors. Park pins are approximate centres, not boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Corrections<\/h2>\n<p>Found a mistake, a wrong local name or a better photo? Tell us \u2014 names in Sinhala and Tamil differ between regions, and we want to include them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SriWild is a free, trilingual encyclopedia of Sri Lanka&#8217;s wildlife \u2014 written for students, travellers, naturalists and everyone who shares the island with these animals. Where the information comes from Species lists: research-grade observations inside Sri Lanka from iNaturalist, checked and edited by our editors. Conservation status: the IUCN Red List (global) and the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}