Historically, elephants and humans lived in harmony in Sri Lanka. When the farmers were done harvesting their fields, they would allow elephants to feed on the stubble. But deforestation, haphazard ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sri Lankan government has intensified its efforts to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and reduce elephant fatalities, ...

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 ...

Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild elephants, considered a national treasure partly due to their significance in Buddhist culture.

Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild elephants. However, the killings continue as desperate farmers struggle with elephants raiding ...