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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 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles 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

SL holds highest number of elephant deaths globally Source:Ceylontoday Sri Lanka holds the highest number of elephant deaths globally due to human-elephant conflicts reported in the country annually, the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) said on Wednesday (9). The Committee also revealed that Sri Lanka is ranked second in reporting the highest number of human deaths due to the same cause. Speaking at COPA meeting, Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando, a specialist in human-elephant conflict said that: “Even though the average number of elephant deaths due to the human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka is 272 per year, 407 elephants have died during the past year, and although the average number of human deaths due to human-elephant conflict is 85 per year, 122 people have died in the past year”. ...

Dec 20, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando, the Committee on Public Accounts