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...
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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...
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...
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...
‘Longest tusked’ elephant in Asia dies in Sri Lanka
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo Millangoda Raja's tusks were legendary throughout Sri Lanka An elephant said to have the longest...
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...
Navam Raja Update….
6th July Wednesday 2011 7 am I visited the Gangaramaya temple this morning and met with the High Priest The Most Venerable Galalaboda Gnanissara Thero who told me that although he was satisfied with...
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...
Injured Elephant looked after by villagers
At last a good story!! Daily Mirror 20 June 2011