TestOld Anandian Lakshitha Karunarathna becomes the first Sri Lankan to win the Grand Prize of the Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Awards. The 2017 award has gone to Lakshitha’s entry of a pride of huddling African lionesses. This image was selected from 26,000 entries submitted from all over the world.Lakshitha picked up the award at an event held at theSmithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC on the 16th of November. This winning images was taken at the Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. Priyanga Wickramasinghe, the acting ambassador of Sri Lanka in US presented the award. Lakshitha Karunarathna’s winning entry is on display until September 2018 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 