470 elephants died - half of them at the hands of humans, while the rest were killed by illness or in accidents.
10 months ago

There are plenty of things to do in Hikkaduwa besides surfing. It has a long sandy beach filled with beach bars, resorts and shopping.
11 months ago

Sri Lanka has the world's highest rate of human-elephant conflict – last year alone, it killed 70 people and 300 elephants.
61 months ago

Despite the well-known cartoon image of an elephant being terrified by a mouse, there is no formal evidence of these huge animals being...
82 months ago

Environmentalists have speculated whether elephants at the Uda Walawe National Park are starving due to a massive shortage of food.
9 months ago

Photo courtesy of Tharmapalan Tilaxan. Today is World Wildlife Day. “Ecocide is the destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or...
45 months ago

It's hard to quantify the most beautiful countries in the world, which is why we let the World Economic Forum do much of the work for us.
30 months ago

In February 2023, the prestigious Forbes magazine proclaimed Sri Lanka as having the Top Wildlife Safaris Outside of Africa for the year 2023.
21 months ago

The Elephant Transit Home (ETH) situated close to the Udawalawe National Park, was opened in 1995 as a rehabilitation centre for orphaned little elephants in...
92 months ago

It was about 10-15 years ago that a big bull elephant was sighted regularly along the electric fence bordering the Thanamalwila Road that...
135 months ago