Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

To try to end the conflict, the Sri Lankan government plans to introduce elephant corridors, based on long-distance migration models used in other countries. According to Sri Lanka’s deputy minister ...

A Sri Lankan express train has fatally struck an elephant despite new safety measures introduced after the same train killed 7 elephants in a previous crash.

Sri Lanka train kills elephant, marking the country's worst wildlife railway accident in three months. Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on ...

Indian elephant bull in musth. Image by Yathin S Krishnappav on Wikimedia Commons. Elephant vs. Safari Truck – Who Ya Got? So, there they were, cruising along in the safari truck, thinking they were ...

A young tusker called Koliya was also shot last year and his decomposed body was found in December 2024. He usually accompanied a long-tusked bull elephant named Sumedha.

Spike, a 38-year-old bull, ambled in from the yard. ... By 2011, the elephant population in Sri Lanka was back up to nearly 6,000, according to a census conducted at watering holes.

However, the largest of the Asian elephant’ genus, Elephas maximus (Linnaeus, 1758) is found only in Sri Lanka and it is a distinct subspecies of the Asian elephant while thought to be closely related ...

The large bull elephant charged toward the 62-year-old, who fainted out of fear; the animal crushed him to death. Over a year later, villagers still live in fear as they struggle to protect their ...

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a feast of fruit for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece center, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms.