With a single tusk that made him stand out, the majestic bull elephant Unicorn was a true king among the wild herds of ...

Driven from their original habitats, the animals are raiding crops and being killed by frightened farmers, but conservationists are piloting better ways to coexist In Makulpotha village, 89 miles ...

Do you like elephants? Lots of people LOVE elephants because they’re BIG. Elephants have the easy life, traveling great distances along uncharted plains, slee ...

The measures came after seven elephants were run over on February 20 by an express train A Sri Lankan passenger train ... stretches of railway tracks in elephant-inhabited forest areas in the ...

while compensation to victims of elephant attacks was about $4 million over the same period. Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild ...

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 ...

The idea of having domesticated elephants has earned the wrath of environmentalists who maintain that the elephant is at its safest when given its space in the jungle Sri Lanka is an island where ...

Why not adopt the same system for our national heritage? Impose hefty fines for law breakers! The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised ...

Two weeks ago, the government announced that 1 195 people and 3 484 animals had been killed in a decade due to the worsening human-elephant conflict on the island. Killing or harming elephants is a ...