The measures came after seven elephants were run over on February 20 by an express train A Sri Lankan passenger train ... stretches of railway tracks in elephant-inhabited forest areas in the ...

while compensation to victims of elephant attacks was about $4 million over the same period. Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild ...

The idea of having domesticated elephants has earned the wrath of environmentalists who maintain that the elephant is at its safest when given its space in the jungle Sri Lanka is an island where ...

See All Key Ideas COLOMBO — More than a decade ago, Thushari, a young female elephant, born wild and free, would roam the landscapes of Galgamuwa in northwestern Sri Lanka every day with her ...

Why not adopt the same system for our national heritage? Impose hefty fines for law breakers! The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised ...

Two weeks ago, the government announced that 1 195 people and 3 484 animals had been killed in a decade due to the worsening human-elephant conflict on the island. Killing or harming elephants is a ...

Sri Lanka's wildlife and railway authorities announced ... Authorities said they had identified vulnerable stretches of railway tracks in elephant-inhabited forest areas in the island's northern ...

Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka's wildlife and railway authorities ... they had identified vulnerable stretches of railway tracks in elephant-inhabited forest areas in the island's northern and ...