IS SRI LANKA CULLING ITS WILD ELEPHANTS – BY PROXY?-by Rohan Wijesinha Source:Daily Island As at May 5, 2021, many as 118 wild elephants had died this year, thus far; that is almost a death a day. The majority of these deaths were at the hands of humans. Of course, these are only those deaths that are recorded. Many elephants, when mortally wounded, will drag themselves away to die in the depths of the jungle, and are thereby unaccounted for. Most of these are males, and a substantial number of them are mature, breeding bulls. Many instruments of destruction are used in perpetuating this slaughter, and apart from firearms, the most popular ways of killing are electrocution, when a line from the Main Grid is illegally attached to a wire fence, or by blowing out their jaws and mouth parts after they consume food items in which are secreted explosives ...
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HENDERIC ENGLEBRECHT: THE FIRST GAME WARDEN OF YALA NATIONAL PARK (SECOND ADDENDUM TO “A BOER PRISONER OF WAR IN CEYLON, THE YALA NATIONAL PARK AND SMS EMDEN OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN NAVY: THE CONNECTION”) Compiled by Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF (Retd)Contents extracted from below given webpage shared by Anoma Abeyewardene, an aviation, military and general history enthusiast. https://www.facebook.com/dordrechtmuseum/posts/the-boer-pow-who-chose-to-stay-in-ceylonthe- group-of-anglo-boer-war-enthusiasts-/1835017156744503/ The group of Anglo-Boer War enthusiasts had visited Dordrecht Museum, Netherlands and this group included English author Robin Woodruff. He had given a talk at the museum on his collection of memorabilia produced by Boer prisoners of war. An article based on Robin Woodruff’s talk was published in the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka which goes like this; ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Conserve our Wildlife Heritage for present and future generations: Conservationists appeal to President-P D DE Silva Elephant at Yala National Park Source:Dailymirror A few days after Dr Pilapitiya’s resignation officials of the Department of Wildlife had said that every Director General of Wildlife and even wildlife officials were subject to immense political pressure. Most of the conservationists contacted were of the view that Sri Lanka’s wildlife could be conserved even at this late stage President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should take up the challenge The Wildlife Department was established in October 1949 but the first attempt to stop the destruction of Sri Lanka’s wildlife resources was made in 1889, by the Conservator of Forests and the biggest challenge the Department of Wildlife Conservation has been facing from 1960 onwards was to ensure the protection of wildlife resources against the large scale multipurpose development projects implemented in the country. ...
Dec 20, 2020
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Brutus or Caesar? Now visitors can identify individual leopards at Sri Lanka park-by Malaka Rodrigo Source:Mongabay A citizen science initiative that identifies and visually records leopard behavior at Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park, world famous for its leopards, hopes to give visitors a better insight into each of the big cats. The new information center was commissioned soon after the COVID-19 lockdown to educate visitors on how to identify the park’s many leopards individually, adding more value to their wildlife experience. The data generated through the initiative is expected to support leopard conservation initiatives in the region and assist wildlife rangers to monitor and manage the park’s leopard population more effectively. ...
Jul 25, 2020
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SRI LANKA NEWS (JUNE 2020) Compiled by Victor Melder Two endangered leopards — including a rare black one — have been killed by snares in Sri Lanka in less than a week, sparking calls for authorities to crack down harder on the cruel traps. A third was found alive in a snare and released back to the wild after being tranquilised. In the latest case, the bloated carcass of a leopard was discovered Tuesday strangled by a wire snare on a cashew plantation on the edge of a forest reserve in Neluwa, some 145 kilometres (90 ...
Jun 30, 2020
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Tagged Karuna Amman, Pattini Devala Perahera, Ranjith Sisirakumara, Sanjaya Jayaratne, The Diyawadana Nilame, Yala National Park
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“PARKS & GARDENS” – By Des Kelly There are many, around the World, but to have “YALA” ranked as the sixth best, in the World, is “something else”, again. How proud this little Country of Sri Lanka should be. A tiny little “dot” in the Indian Ocean, and yet, some of the most picturesque, verdant, Parks & Gardens, among other beautiful “scenic wonders” too many to mention. This is one of the main reasons why tourists, including my own family, wish to go there, on holiday. To go “on safari” at Yala, has always been on their agenda, and who can blame them ?. The park, with it’s natural settings for wild-life that is both abundant and ideal for both the large and small, HAS to be visited in order to make it the perfect holiday. This, then, is the story of YALA, the ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Variety is the spice of life in sensational Sri Lanka: Why Lonely Planet was right when it said the country is the best place to visit in 2019 Sri Lanka has just been voted by travel experts Lonely Planet as the best place in the world to visit in 2019 From picture-postcard beaches, lush jungles and incredible wildlife, the country has so much to offer A tour from the west to the south east coast with a driver makes for an epic adventure, writes Andrew Harries If you’re reading this while enjoying a cup of tea, then perhaps you should raise your mug to a pioneering young Scot, James Taylor. Just 16 when he left Scotland’s shores, he introduced tea planting to Sri Lanka, opening the country’s first factory in 1872 – and by the mid-90s Sri Lanka was the world’s biggest exporter of tea. And it’s striking just how ...
Mar 26, 2019
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