Central Highlands of Sri Lanka 

The Central Highland of Sri Lanka is including the Horton Plains National Park and the Knuckles Conservation Forest Peak Wilderness Protected Area. The Peak Wilderness Nature Reserve extends in three districts; Nuwara Eliya in the Central Province, and Rathnapura and Kegalle in the Sabaragamuwa Province. Horton Plains National Park is located in the district of Nuwara Eliya in the Central Province. The Knuckles Conservation Forest is located in the district of Matale and Kandy in the Central Province. At more than 1,200 meters above sea level, natural UNESCO World Heritage Site is merged with another in 2010. There are many hiking trails in the Central Highlands and the biodiversity paradise for naturalists.

The highland of Sri Lanka lies in the south-central part of the island. These montane forests, is home to an incredible variety of flora and fauna, including several endangered species such as the western-purple-faced langur, the Horton Plains slender loris and the Sri Lankan leopard.

They include areas Sri Lanka mountain rain forest is considered as a super-hotspots in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. More than half of vertebrates endemic to Sri Lanka, half of flowering plants endemic countries and more than 34% of endemic trees, shrubs, and plants that are restricted to these diverse rain forest mountains and areas adjacent pasture.

Of the 408 species of vertebrates 83% of the indigenous population of freshwater fish and 81% of amphibians in the Peak Wilderness Protected Area are endemic, 91% of amphibians and 89% of reptiles, Horton Plains is endemic, and 64% of amphibians and 51% of reptiles in the Knuckles Conservation Forest is endemic.