Visit to Uda Walawe National Park 2/3 June 2014
A pictorial report of my recent visit to the Uda Walawe National Park...
sri lanka; wild life
Sinharaja Bird Wave
On The Wings Of A Wildlife Spectacle By Malaka Rodrigo (25th Sept 2011) The Sinharaja rainforest’s ‘Mixed Species Feeding Bird Flocks’ is a unique spectacle that can also be promoted as a tou...
Bare facts of bear deaths
Sunday 11th Sept 2011 Two sloth-bear deaths within the last three months at the Yala National Park are being thoroughly investigated by the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DW...
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 m...
Another elephant bites the dust…
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 Colom...
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 hel...
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 (DWLC) ...
some photos of the Thimbiriyamankada bungalow
Thimbiryamankada bungalow is one of 5 circuit bungalows available within the Uda Walawe national Park. It is a wooden structure with a large viewing deck with an almost 300 Degree view of the edge of ...
‘Edward’ the resident wild boar at one of the Bugalows at Uda Walawe National Park
Edward is a big wild boar who frequents the Thimbiriyamankada Bungalow, situated inside the Uda Walawe National Park . He has got somewhat acclimatized to people and turn up usually at dinner time&#...
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 wi...
Baby leopards found in a house in Thabbowa, Sri Lanka
The TIMES ONLINE: Saturday, 02 July 2011 12:32...
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 ele...
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 bu...