I first set eyes on Rambo in the early 1990’s when I started visiting the Uda Walawe National Park. He was a young male elephant at that time, with a very calm demeanor. He had a very unique...
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Talks about Wild elephants and Conservation to Villagers in Sri Lanka
Many moons ago.(Circa August 1988). Going to talk about wild elephants and need for conservation to some remote village hamlet off Anuradhapura, in the central province of Sri Lanka. A different era...
‘Poson’… Another significance ?
Poson ( celebrated on the full moon day in June ) is a day of great significance to Sri Lankan Buddhists. It is commemorates the day on which Buddhism was introduced to SL from India in BC...
Sri Lanka elephants: ‘Record number’ of deaths in 2019
Sri Lanka elephants: 'Record number' of deaths in 2019 - From the BBC 11 January 2020 Image captionThere are an estimated 7,500 wild elephants in Sri Lanka A record number of elephants - 361 - have...
A Bird upstages the elephants of Uda Walawe!
The decision to visit the park was made spontaneously without much planning. Since I had not been to the Uda Walawe National Park (UWNP) for a few months, on the spur of the moment I thought of...
You And I, We Are All Guilty
We are killing the very goose that lays the golden egg: our natural environment and its resources, by our short-sighted actions, warns Dr. Sriyanie Miththapala. In the last few weeks, the in...
Visit to the Uda Walawe Elephant Transit Home
last week I was at the Elephant transit home..This is Namal the juvenile whose hind leg had to be amputated. He has a costume made local prosthetic limb There was also a 2 month...
Does Yala need a 40 Foot Roadway ?
There is a major road development activity taking place along the approach road to the Yala National Park. It appears that the road is being widened to a 40 ft roadway, with the scrub...
Rambo, Hale and Hearty at Uda Walawe
I had the good fortune of being invited by Mahoora Tented Safari Camps to visit them at their Uda Walawe camp site recently. I had not seen their operations after they were forced to relocate...
‘The Gathering’ – The Unknown Story
‘The Gathering’ – The Unknown StoryBy Srilal Miththapala‘The Gathering’ (of elephants) at Minneriya National Park takes place from around June to October each year, and has today become a well-known...
The Elephant Transit Home at Uda Walawe, Sri Lanka
On my way to Yala few days ago, I made a quick stop over at the Elephant Transit Home (ETH) at Uda Walawe. As opposed to Pinnawela, where orphaned elephants are reared, at the ETH, orphaned...