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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A unique, ‘elephantine’ experience in downtown Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Returning home on Sunday late in the morning along the High Level road, I noticed that there was elephant dung on the side of the road and I surmised that there was a tame elephant walking along the...
Return of Rambo
The full unedited version of the Sunday Times article on 8th Sept 2013 - Finding Rambo Having kept daily contact with the Uda Walawe National Park, and with no news about Rambo, hope seemed to be...
Pregnant Female Jumbo Felled By Shotgun
By Kumudini HettiarachchiSUNDAY TIMES It was a double tragedy – the bullets not only killed the cow-elephant but also the unborn baby she was carrying at Demaliya, close to the northern boundary of...
Oldest Captive Elephant In Sri Lanka Dies
I do not agree to the head line "domesticated" because there is no such thing as a domesticated elephant..only dogs and cats which have been bred in captivity for a long period are domesticated. All...
Rare female elephant with tusks reported from Sri Lanka
Mon, Nov 21, 2011, 09:33 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka Wildlife authorities claim that they have observed a rare female elephant with tusks...
Sri Lanka to build more elephant conservation centers
Colombo - Xinhua Wednesday, 16 November 2011 12:07 GMT Sri Lanka has started to build four elephant conservation centers to end the ongoing human- elephant conflicts, the country's Wildlife...
Fighting Elephants – Unusual behaviour
This is very very unusual behaviour. Normally elephants only spar and joist but rarely are their altercations really serious. Daily Mirror . 4th November 2011
Snares are latest weapon in relentless man-beast conflict
By Kumudini Hettiarachchi 23rd October 2011 They have been hunted, shot, poisoned, blasted with trap guns and grievously injured through different forms of cruelty. The latest “unwitting”...
Solutions To Raging Human- Elephant Conflict
October 23, 2011, 6:51 pm By Ravi Ladduwahetty The Island Sri Lanka is one the thirteen Asian elephant range states and has around 2 percent of the habitat of the elephant population in South Asia,...
The carnage goes on, despite the real numbers
While the Dept of wild life conservation ( DWLC) continues to bask in their new found and much-maligned wild elephant population , the sad destruction of wild elephants goes on unabated. How many...
Questions for the Dept. of Wild life re the elephant census….
1. Was this project a ‘census’ or a ‘population estimate’? There appears to be some confusion about the very focus and objective of the programme. Some officials at the DWLC have conceded to me (...