Calming an agitated Elephant –Srilal Miththapala
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 frightenin...
Rambo the elephant being tormented by a drunk
Rambo the elephant of Uda Walawe National park being tormented by a drunk man who scaled the protective electric fence and taunts the elephant. After a while Rambo loses his patience and attacks the m...
Rambo of Uda Walawe National Park
I first set eyes on Rambo in the early 1990’s when I started visiting the Uda Walawe National Park. He was a young male elephant at that time, with a very calm demeanor. He had a very unique identif...
Talks about Wild elephants and Conservation to Villagers in Sri Lanka
Many moons ago.(Circa August 1988). Going to talk about wild elephants and need for conservation to some remote village hamlet off Anuradhapura, in the central province of Sri Lanka. A different era &...
Poson..another Significance ?
Srilal Miththapala Poson ( celebrated on the full moon day in June ) is a day of great significance to Sri Lankan Buddhists. It is commemorates the day on which Buddhism was introduced to SL from Indi...
Sri Lanka elephants: ‘Record number’ of deaths in 2019
Sri Lanka elephants: ‘Record number’ of deaths in 2019 – From the BBC 11 January 2020 A record number of elephants – 361 – have died in Sri Lanka during 2019, environment...
