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...
Wild Elephants
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...
Entire Yala National park to be opened for visitors..good or bad?
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=13888
The ‘Gathering’ at Minneriya gets top billing world-wide
Gehan & Srilal's dream comes true It was about 5 years ago that Gehan de S Wijeratne ( formerly of Jetwing Group) and Srilal Miththapala ( formerly of Serendib Leisure) two senior tourism...
Injured Elephant looked after by villagers
At last a good story!! Daily Mirror 20 June 2011
The killing fields …3 elephants killed in a collision with a train
From Gold FM newsSaturday, 18 June 2011 - 08:12 AM The Police Headquarters announced that three elephants have died after being knocked down by a train near the Mee Oya Bridge in...
Is Walawe Raja still alive?
Full article in todays Sunday Times....http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110515/Plus/plus_19.html
School closed following elephant invasion!
Thursday, 05 May 2011 13:13 Sri Lanka Mirror Editor A school in Uhana ( in the Ampara district of Eastern Sri Lanka) has been closed after four wild elephant invaded the school premises yesterday...
Is ‘Walawe Raja’, the icon of Uda Walawe National Park, still alive?
There have been numerous inquiries through Sri Lanka Elephant Web Page (https://www.srilankaelephant.com) and the Sri Lanka Elephant Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/SriLankaElephant), as well...
The now defuct World Bank project on conservation- a very informative newspaper article re this..
A good over view and what happened to the project eventually...
Some clarifications to queries re tusks..
There were some queries re two items of interest that I posted on the page... Re elephant tusks and tushes and referring to a tuskless male as "pussa" ( ref my post re the elephant sighted at...
