We arrived in Sri Lanka not long before midnight ... I had never seen an elephant before I saw Raja – and his sheer scale blew me away. Raja was a magnificent forty year-old elephant, who ...

Dubai: In Sri Lanka, a traditional road toll has taken an amusing twist as a 40-year-old elephant named Raja has become a ...

The table salt factory, which is being established in the Elephant Pass Salt Mine area, affiliated to the National Salt ...

With a single tusk that made him stand out, the majestic bull elephant Unicorn was a true king among the wild herds of ...

The Government took a significant step towards self-sufficiency in salt production with the opening of the ‘Raja Salt’ ...

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

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 ...

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Environment, Dammika Patabendi, recently reported alarming statistics in Parliament. Between 2015 and 2019, 1,466 wild elephants were killed. This number increased to ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka's wildlife and railway authorities announced on Friday a series of low-tech measures, including adjusting timetables to reduce night-time train collisions, following the worst wildlife ...

Sri Lanka's wildlife and ... a decade due to the worsening human-elephant conflict on the island. Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 ...