By Mongabay.com “The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular ...

Rapid growth of elephant and human population, struggling to share limited resources and land. Farmers are encroaching on ...

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

A National Policy on Elephant Conservation and Management was drawn up outlining a new strategic approach to solve the HEC and approved by the Cabinet of Ministers in 2006. However, though nearly 10 ...

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 ...

In Sri Lanka, a charming elephant cheekily halts traffic for treats. This is an extract from a new episode of Asia, a seven-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough and dedicated to our ...

The Sri Lankan government has intensified its efforts to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and reduce elephant fatalities, allocating substantial funds in the 2025 budget for elephant conservation.

Efforts by government troops to secure control of a main highway that links mainland Sri Lanka to the northern Jaffna peninsula came a step closer Thursday when they re-captured Pallai, a palm-fringed ...

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 ...

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 ...