117 elephants killed so far this year in Sri Lanka

“Sri Lanka Wildlife Department sources say that 117 wild elephants died so far this year.” - Colombo Page

Posted on Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 6:58 am

Manori Gunawardena on September 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

What is killing elephants in Sri Lanka is the rapid conversion of elephant habitat for development activities. This is the pre cursor to increased human elephant conflict. Unfortunately, the press picks up on individual elephant deaths and incidents without examining the broader raminfications of unplanned development which has lead to elephant (and human) deaths.

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