Human – elephant conflict Source:Island Electric fencing, white elephant The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) revealed that although Rs. 490 million had been spent on building electric fences between 2019 and 2020, there had been no decrease in the incidents of the human-elephant conflict. The cost of constructing the electric fences in 2019 to prevent human-elephant conflict was Rs. 275,447,639 and the amount spent for this purpose in the year 2020 was Rs. 221,505,818. The total length of the electric fences was 4,756 km. ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Tagged B.Y.G Ratnasekera, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Dr. Upul Galappaththi, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Members of Parliament Tissa Attanayake, Mohamed Muzammil, Niroshan Perera, Prasanna Ranaweera, Prof. Tissa Vitarana, S. Sridharan, State Ministers Dayasiri Jayasekara, the Committee on Public Accounts, Weerasumana Weerasinghe
