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...
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Rambo goes on an Amorous ‘walk-about’
There have been concerns recently, about the disappearance of Rambo, the iconic male elephant, who...
A Close Encounter At Uda Walawe National Park- 2nd/3rd June 2014
We were driving along and as we passed the Seenuggala bungalow, we saw a big male elephant on the side of the bund and we quickly turned in and drove into the bungalow, close to...
Off Season for Rambo, the Uda Walawe Elephant?
For the past one week, Rambo the famous Uda Walawe elephant has been missing from his favourite haunt of the Uda Walawe reservoir bund. Rambo is well known for his antics, standing behind the...
Beware of Wild Elephants sign
One of the few 'Beware of wild elephants crossing' signs in Sri Lanka. This is on the A 12 Puttalam-Anuradhapura-Trincomalee Road
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...
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...
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...
A wild Elephant At Cricket!
A unique photo taken by Dimitri two days ago at Lahugala National park ( in the south-eastern part of Sri Lanka) where a bemused wild elephant watches a game of cricket being played by off-duty Army...
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 (...
The Gathering – Hot Off The Press
some photos taken by Dimitri at Minneriya National Park, last week, where the 'Gathering' is in full swing....