Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) is an entirely private sector owned and driven platform established to promote strong engagement of the corporate sector in Biodiversity and environmental conservation issues in Sri Lanka. BSL actively promotes strong leadership of the private sector in these areas through active learning, providing technical support, sharing information, knowledge and experience, promoting best practices and dialogue with state and civil society partners. Its overall mandate is to help raise awareness of biodiversity and sustainability issues amongst the Sri Lankan business community. Working to assist companies in understanding and mainstreaming biodiversity, the Platform has the ultimate aim of ensuring that a majority of companies will eventually be on a sustainable ecological footing with a vastly reduced negative impact upon biodiversity. Our Beginnings Initially established in August 2012, as a programme of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce called the Sri Lanka Business and Biodiversity (SL B&B) Platform, the initiating partners were the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Dilmah Conservation. In October 2015, the Platform was legally established as a not-for-profit Company limited by guarantee and was re-branded as Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL). BSL now focuses on national priorities that would set higher standards for Sri Lanka’s private sector to further commit towards the conservation of our valuable biological heritage.