20 years on from the tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park is now thriving
It was like any other day for Sri Lankan safari guide Priyantha (Pusa) Hettiarachige as he prepared to welcome guests
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Wildlife
Ecuador, Seychelles, Sri Lanka: The new deals that take from national debt to give to conservation
LYON: In the 1990s, Irish singer Bob Geldof and friends campaigned to “drop the debt,” in an effort to alleviate
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Sri Lanka’s Kalametiya lagoon draws tourists to see native and migrant birds
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka – Some 215 kilometers (130 miles) south of Colombo in the Hambantota district lies a unique, infrequently
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Recent seismic activity in Indian Ocean likely led pilot whales to beach on Sri Lanka shores
KALPITIYA: The Feb.11 beaching of 14 pilot whales in Kalpitiya, about 172 kilometers (107 miles) from the capital, Colombo, may have
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Shipping giant changes course to save Sri Lanka whales
COLOMBO: Animal rights activists on Friday (Sep 9) cheered a move by a shipping giant to alter course in Sri
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In Sri Lanka, a wild cat thrives in the unlikely urban jungle of Colombo
COLOMBO: At his home in Thimbirigasyaya, a highly residential area in the heart of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo, Eshan
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Sri Lanka’s zoo animals are having a pandemic baby boom
COLOMBO: To prevent the worst of Covid devastation, Sri Lanka imposed lockdowns and stopped flights from abroad for nearly a
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Sri Lanka goes virtual to promote wildlife tourism
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will offer livestreams from the island nation’s wildlife parks, in a move to help revive a tourism
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Elephant seal native to Antarctica spotted for first time in tropical Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, November 2019: Uthpala Adaranga, a ranger with Sri Lanka’s Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), was initially doubtful about the
Read MoreSri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map
SACRAMENTO: For a large, charismatic and endangered species such as the Asian elephant, you might think scientists would have figured
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