The Horror Of Horowpathana: Starving Elephants to Death groundviews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from groundviews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Ifham Nizam The government is still foot dragging on implementing a solution to the Human-elephant conflict (HEC) although there is a comprehensive action plan in hand, says one of the policy makers and a researcher on Sri Lankan elephants.Biodiversity Conservation and Research Circle Convener, Supun Lahiru Prakash, told the Sunday Island that after deciding […]
COLOMBO It took a tweet from Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio to bring the issue of trash-foraging elephants in Sri Lanka to global attention. But local conservationists have long been flagging the problem, one they say is rooted in “short-sighted, politically motivated” planning that continues to take its toll on both elephants and people. On […]
COLOMBO: Disturbing images of a herd of elephants grazing in a garbage pit in Ampara, in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, have been making the rounds ever since media reports suggested that many had died after ingesting plastic waste. The reports estimate at least 20 of the elephants that fed on the open dump had died in the past eight years. While conservationists question the
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