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RAMBO OF UDA WALAWE NATIONAL PARK IN GOOD SHAPE
Last weekend during a visit to the Uda Walawe Park, I saw that Rambo is still at his old haunts along the bund of the Uda Walawe reservoir, and doing well. This is despite the attempts by the Wild...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 full un-abridged sunday times ( 16th Jan 2010) article, with many photos……
The ‘Find Raja Project’ – A wrap up and brief look back - Srilal Miththapala The initial idea for this endeavour came to me in September last year, when I was talking to my one- time colleague, and...
Field trip 4th/5th November 2010
The field trip was a grueling, exhausting, productive, frustrating and eventful one ..all rolled up in one !!! The main objective of the trip was to meet up with a senior ranger of the Dept. of wild...
Dissapointments
Ok folks. Good evening!! . .some disappointment as regards the promised evening report. The team is 'overnighting' at Handagiriya…but we find that the connectivity is very poor. In fact even voice...
Exceptional Dialog
It’s amazing how much interest, enthusiasm and support there is from most people. Particularly DIALOG, who are really going out of their way to help. Since I complained that the signal strength was...
Concerns
There have been some queries about all the concern that we are raising about Raja’s disappearance from the Uda Walawe national park. True he was never a ‘permanent resident ‘of the park. But ‘like a...
Sumedha Video
Hello Folks! No further news re. Raja. We are awaiting a meeting with the Director Dept. of Wild Life before starting off in earnest next week. We will need the DWLC’s ‘blessings’ and support, even...
First Reconnaissance to check out the study area
On the 5th of October, the prospective “Find Raja” team gathered together at a make shift base camp just outside the Uda Walawe Park to plan out our first reconionsence to check out the lie of the...
First live post from the field
Hi folks, as planned I came to c heck out the lie of the land of our study area. I am now in Dahayiyagala north of the uda walawe park. This is real elephant country. Some people have seen a tusker...