As reported by (AP/Chamila Karunarathne) A wild elephant, was shot and seriously wounded allegedly by farmers. It is lying in a paddy field at Palugaswewa, some 220 kilometers (136 miles) from...
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The fall of the Tusker
14th Sunday 2011 Extracts from a talk on ‘The Future of the Tuskers in Sri Lanka’ by Srilal Miththapala at the Sustainable BioDiversity and Economic Development Conference held...
The Dzanga Forest Reserve-another Minneriya type ‘Gathering’ in central Africa?
The Dzanga Forest Reserve is a protected reserve of southwestern Central African Republic. It was established in 1990 and covers 6865.54 km². Since the establishment of the reserve it has...
Environmental Organizations Boycott the Elephant Census Standing against Domestication of Elephants Subsequent to the Census
(Lanka-e-News -10.Aug.2011, 11.45PM) The Minister of Agrarian Services and Wildlife S. N. Chandrasena stated that 300 tuskers and elephant calves suitable for carrying caskets in peraheras will be...
Census on elephants in Sri Lanka to also identify baby elephants for religious processions
Mon, Aug 8, 2011, 10:12 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. A Sri Lankan government minister says that calf elephants suitable for religious pageants (Peraheras) will be identified during...
Illegal Transfer Of Elephants
By Nirmala Kannangara Environmentalists and elephant enthusiasts have come up strongly against the National Zoological Gardens and the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage for giving away elephants to...
Famous tusker passes away in Sri Lanka
* Famous tusker passes away in Sri Lanka Wed, Aug 3, 2011, 06:17 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Aug 03, Kandy: Millangoda Raja, a famous tamed elephant of Sri...
Beware of elephants crossing!
Sri Lanka is perhaps one of the few places in the world that one can see such 'beware of wild elephants crossing ' signs... This was taken yesterday between Karuwalagaswewe and Thabbowa, close to...
Counting elephants-The other side of the coin
Counting elephants-The other side of the coin By Srilal Miththapala There is considerable publicity about the proposed elephant census being planned by the Department of Wild Life Conservation...
a good story about a Sri lankan in Botswana and his pet african elephants
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11201/1161582-53.stm
Possibly the only country where you get “Beware of Elephant crossing’ road signs!
In spite of such road sign-age speeding trucks sometimes hit elephants in Sri Lanka...
Another Raja sick….
The famous Gangarama temple ( in Colombo) elephant, known as Raja, who carries the Scared Tooth Relic in the annual Gangaramaya Perehera held in the city of Colombo in February each year, is ailing...
The ‘Find Raja Project’ – A wrap up and brief look back
This article appeared sometime aqo in the Sunday Times The initial idea for this endeavour came to me in September last year, when I was talking to my one- time colleague, and now an...
The removal of buffer zones around national parks..
Fri, Jul 1, 2011, 08:42 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 01, Colombo: Environmentalists in Sri Lanka have raised concerns over the government's decision to remove the buffer...