An Asian elephant in central Thailand has given birth to a rare set of twins, in what caretakers have described as a miracle. The mother, 36-year-old...
By Anbarasan Ethirajan, in Sri Lanka Sumitra Malkandi breaks down as she recounts the fateful evening in March last year when her husband was trampled to...
WNPS Monthly Lecture Conservation of the Asian Elephant in Today’s World By Dr. Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan Thursday 18th January ,6 pm, , Jasmine Hall, BMICH Increasing demand...
Elephants ? Oranges BY ZINARA RATNAYAKE In Sri Lanka, human-elephant conflict has disrupted farmers for generations. In some cases, people are killed. Now, a local conservation...
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Department of Wildlife has given up efforts to protect elephants in the country, Sajeewa Chamikara of the Movement for Land and Agricultural...
BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY– Diyawadana Nilame of the Sri Dalada Maligawa, Pradeep Nilanga Dela Bandara, warned of a severe scarcity of tamed pachyderms to take part...
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas. B. Ranasinghe Set out below is an account of Thilo Hoffmann’s other work in nature conservation...
By Dinasena Ratugamage Many elephants deprived of their habitat due to deforestation are now found on the Vavuniya-Horowpathana road.People are scared of using this stretch of...
by Rohan Wijesinha Recent media reports have drawn attention to the plight of ‘The Gathering’, that iconic annual congregation of wild elephants in the Minneriya National...