Wild elephant deaths 2021
Sri Lanka elephants: ‘Record number’ of deaths in 2019
Sri Lanka elephants: 'Record number' of deaths in 2019 - From the BBC 11 January 2020 Image captionThere are an estimated 7,500 wild elephants in Sri Lanka A record number of elephants - 361 - have...
Pregnant Female Jumbo Felled By Shotgun
By Kumudini HettiarachchiSUNDAY TIMES It was a double tragedy – the bullets not only killed the cow-elephant but also the unborn baby she was carrying at Demaliya, close to the northern boundary of...
Oldest Captive Elephant In Sri Lanka Dies
I do not agree to the head line "domesticated" because there is no such thing as a domesticated elephant..only dogs and cats which have been bred in captivity for a long period are domesticated. All...
Fighting Elephants – Unusual behaviour
This is very very unusual behaviour. Normally elephants only spar and joist but rarely are their altercations really serious. Daily Mirror . 4th November 2011
Snares are latest weapon in relentless man-beast conflict
By Kumudini Hettiarachchi 23rd October 2011 They have been hunted, shot, poisoned, blasted with trap guns and grievously injured through different forms of cruelty. The latest “unwitting”...
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,...
The carnage goes on, despite the real numbers
While the Dept of wild life conservation ( DWLC) continues to bask in their new found and much-maligned wild elephant population , the sad destruction of wild elephants goes on unabated. How many...
Pilgrim killed in bear attack at Yala National Park
Ada Derana:July 10, 2011 04:10 pm A female pilgrim on foot (Pada Yathra), traveling to Kataragama on foot through the jungle routes in the Yala National Park, was killed at around 10am today...