Where is Bundala Biosphere Reserve which has been recently added to the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) network, located?

Bundala Biosphere Reserve is located on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka. UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) documentation describes Bundala’s core area as a national park with four brackish lagoons and flat coastal terrain on Sri Lanka’s southeast shoreline [2]. National and tourism sources also place Bundala near Hambantota in Sri Lanka’s Southern Province, about 245–251 km southeast of Colombo, and note its designation as a national park and Ramsar wetland prior to its inclusion in the MAB network. Together these authoritative descriptions confirm that Bundala is in Sri Lanka, so option (3) is correct.

Sources

1. [1] https://www.unesco.org/en/mab/bundala
2. [2] https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/silk-road-themes/biosphere-reserve/bundala