The Sri Lankan elephant population has fallen almost 65% since the turn of the 19th century. Today, the Sri Lanka elephant is protected under the Sri Lankan law and killing one carries the death ...

COLOMBO — More than a decade ago, Thushari, a young female elephant, born wild and free, would roam the landscapes of ...

Fact-Check: A video showing a herd of elephants walking in a field has been falsely shared from Hyderabad following the ...

The Sri Lankan elephant (whose scientific name is the particularly telling ‘Elephas maximus maximus’) can reach over 5,000 kg in weight and stand over 10 feet tall. Controlling such an enormous animal ...

But deforestation, haphazard cultivation methods and massive development projects have led to increasing human-elephant conflict in the country. Sri Lanka has the highest number of elephant deaths ...

The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka continues unabated. Although efforts by successive governments since the 1970s have reduced the rate of attrition, and there are about 7,000 elephants ...

An elephant gifted to Sri Lanka has been flown back to Thailand on Sunday following a diplomatic spat over the animal's alleged mistreatment. 29-year-old Muthu Raja - also known in its birthplace ...

We arrived in Sri Lanka not long before midnight, and immediately jumped into a taxi for the four-hour drive to our location. We only made one stop along the way (for ice cream-filled coconuts ...

He held two successful exhibitions of his photography in 2000 and 2004- Sri Lanka Wild but when it came to compiling a book, he has chosen to dedicate it to the elephant. “We need to value what we are ...

AFP 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 ...

The University Sri Lanka Elephant Conservation Consortium is seeking applications for our 8-week summer research program in Sri Lanka in summer 2024. The project focuses on understanding the causes of ...