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...
Follow up after Raja…
Hi Friends... now that the Raja project has drawn to a close, we thought we would slowly 'close shop'. But there have been numerous requests to have this site continue..and be a news forum , which...
No Raja..so project slowly draws to a close….
PROJECT UPDATE The project continues to quietly wind down. We are in the process of doing another complete circuit right around the out skirts of the Uda Walawe National Park and distribute as much...
Unique offer of help…..
At least our faith in humanity remains in tact by these type of pledges of help...Many thanks Suren. Will inform all concerned and prepare some protocols.... Dear SriLal We at Deccan Aviation and...
25th November Update of the ‘Find Raja project’
This week was a quiet one. The proposed, concerted effort to launch a series of field investigations in the area where we had received several reports of sightings of a tusker who fitted Raja’s...
3 new video clips of our 4th November field trip now uplaoded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADkNPLHTWTo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5F6mix1Sc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3tFPfAUDo
Is Walawe Raja recovering from its broken left tusk?
http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/features/139-feature/27604.html
Manori’s observations…
By the way an interesting observation from Manori Gunawardena, an experienced field reseracher with elephants, now in the USA, which gives us some hope.... "Hi Srilal, ..Also the trunk injury is not...
Quick update -17th November 2010
As the excitement wears off, and the grind sets in, our weary team was in rather low spirits until Monday this week. Elephant sighting are in abundance in and around the North/ North East regions of...
THE FIND RAJA PROJECT UPDATE- Summary of work done so far and findings to date
· The team has traversed the entire north-eastern, northern and north- western boundaries of the UWNP, and met more than 100 villagers and sensitized them towards what we are doing. We have shown...
Is Walawe Raja ( wherever he may be ) growing back his broken left tusk?
While studying old photographs of Raja I came across an interesting observation where it appears that his broken tusk seems to be longer in more recent photographs. Ashoka, my friend and colleague (...
Extract from Dr Vijitha Perera’s book about Raja..a wonderful first hand experince
Chapter 6. Treating the king of the Udawalawe National Park The Udawalawe National Park is a popular place for wild elephants. There is a permanent population of about three hundred but this...
Report of field trip 6th and 7th November
Following upon our reliable leads established on our field trip on the 4th of November , we had several calls on the hotline that many elephants , including a tusker was seen the night before in the...