Wildlife officials said the animal had first been shot and wounded before being set alight. Read more at straitstimes.com.

As of July , about 198 wild elephants were reported dead over the first seven months of the year in Sri Lanka. The cumulative ...

Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as ...

COLOMBO — Monkeys were expected to be among the chief culprits identified as Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide survey on March 15 of crop-raiding animals. But in a small village near the Sinharaja ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger train hit an elephant herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, killing six of the animals, an official said on Thursday. Four babies and two adults died near ...

Conservationists have slammed a move by a Sri Lanka court to return 14 endangered elephants to the suspected traffickers they were originally seized from in 2015. The elephants are part of a group of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANDY, Sri Lanka – Animal rights campaigners ...

Births at the island nation’s zoos are up 25 percent, a rare bright spot as Covid-19 ravages an economy closely tied to tourism. By Aanya Wipulasena COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — To prevent the worst of Covid ...

YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka — Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend’s massive tsunami. An Associated ...

Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka is planning to ban all forms of ritual sacrifice at Hindu religious festivals in the face of opposition from animal protection activists. Animals sacrificed include goats, ...

IT WAS SIX A.M. when the procession of headlights began to pierce the predawn darkness at the dockyard. Bleary-eyed tourists from all along Sri Lanka’s south coast were arriving at the harbor in ...