Introduction All serious wild life enthusiasts have had, at one time or another, the experience of being charged down by an enraged wild elephant in the national parks. This is a most...
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A visit to Wilpattu National Park
Oct 22/23rd Oct 2013 Srilal Miththapala accompanied by Dimitri Miththapala Our Route The super A 12 Road to Anuradhapura The Park Entrance The The Wilpattu National Park is located 30km...
Rambo is Back on the Uda Walawe reservoir Bund
.Returning form Ella last week, I decided to take the route via Thanamalawila and pass the Uda Walawe national Park, hoping to spot Rambo. And I was not disappointed. There he was back at his old...
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...
” Red Bull Champion to create magic in the air ….with the World heritage site of Sigiriya as a backdrop”
....screams the newspaper headline. What absolute degrading lunacy is this? Is this the 'magic' that Sri Lanka needs to protect and enhance its rich 2,500 year old history? Where is brand schema...
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...
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,...
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 tourist...
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 results of the infamous wild elephant census out in record two weeks!!!
As expected the so -called much maligned and flawed 'census' by the DWLC has already revealed that the 'wild elephant population in Sri Lanka is thriving and healthy'! It has already hit the...
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...