News: wildlife

02/16/2011 | AFP
Sri Lanka is planning its first ever census of elephants as the animals increasingly come into conflict with villagers, a top official said Wednesday.
01/13/2011 | BBC
An image has emerged from Sri Lanka of a dead elephant calf stuck high in a tree after getting caught up in the country's devastating floods.
11/30/2010 | AFP
Sri Lanka is to turn a vast jungle area that was a base for the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels into a wildlife sanctuary, 18 months after the end of island's bloody civil war, the government said Tuesday.
Tigers, wildlife
08/17/2010 | BBC
Sri Lanka's wildlife veterinary surgeons have gone on strike in protest at what they say is the government's failure to manage a serious conflict between wild elephants and humans.