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Tag: Elephants

Nature’s final stand: Sinharaja elephant battles for survival in shrinking habitat

Speed Read: ‘Panu kota,’ a lone elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) roaming the Sinharaja forestcapes in Sri Lanka’s south is living...

Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up

by Malaka Rodrigo on 19 November 2021 Hakka patas, an improvised explosive device that detonates when bit, is the number one killer...

Outcry in Sri Lanka as suspected elephant kidnappers get to keep the animals

by Malaka Rodrigo on 18 November 2021 Conservationists have slammed a move by a Sri Lanka court to return 14 endangered elephants...

At the Horowpathana elephant holding ground, it is starvation that is driving jumbo deaths

Sri Lanka holds one of world’s worst records in human-elephant conflict and while multiple reasons contribute to the escalation...