“It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this Introductory Seminar on Conserving the Wild Elephants of Sri Lanka. As you may be aware, this seminar is a prelude to an exciting event this Saturday which will see the release of a number of rehabilitated young elephants to the wild in Uda Walawe. This process of rehabilitation has taken some years. If you have read the introductory piece on each of the elephants, you will notice that some of them had been saved in the nick of time. ” - Lanka Mission