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The island nation has been using its tuskers to attract more foreign visitors to boost nature tourism
Sri Lanka was to export 100,000 monkey to China to reduce heavy crop damage by them
Sri Lankan officials have said they are preparing to export 100,000 toque macaque monkeys to China
Social Learning and Cooperation Go Deep
Sri Lanka has around 5,000 animals in all zoological gardens
Sri Lankan animal welfar activists have been pushing for the bill to be passed as soon as possible.
In deep with Lanka’s Bottlenose buddies.
Puppies and newborn kittens are sick and dying in an animal shelter run by the Wennappuwa Pradeshiya Sabha which has bec...
Early morning, late September, dense high-tree jungle, Willpattu National Park. We’re here in search of the Sri Lan...
The National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) is calling on the government to immediately act on mitigating the human-...
Considerations on cetacean brainpower
Why do whales get hit by ships? Why does ship strike happen?
Famed American pop singer Cher took to Twitter over the weekend to react to last week’s report that Sri Lanka was lead...
Sri Lanka has earned the dubious ranking as the country where the largest number of Elephants are killed because of the ...
The several dozen large marine mammals who have been beached off Panadura today are short-finned Pilot Whales and may be...
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Sri Lanka’s governing party Members of Parliament agreed today to bring about a ban on cattle slaughter in the country...
Sri Lanka’s street dog population keeps sky-rocketing as authorities fail to set clear policies and create systems for...
Two men who had tried to sell Leopard teeth, nails, skin, oil and ivory products on Facebook were arrested in Seeduwa by...
Environmental Activist Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thero says it is a ridiculous decision taken by the Cabinet of Minister...
A full-grown male leopard was shot and killed near the Udawalawe National park last Tuesday (31).
Conservationists and animal rights groups are up in arms over an alleged Cabinet proposal to release illegally captured ...
Unorganized methods of mitigating the Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC), has resulted in increasing the conflict over the de...
Officials agree that the elephants were poisoned but are yet to discover whether it was a biological or an artificial su...
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