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

Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned and injured elephants to the wild on Thursday after nursing them back to health under a long-running conservation project, officials said. Two females and ...

Photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan said that for the elephants, "many things have changed, and their changed behavior will change our landscape" Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Environmentalists in Sri Lanka are challenging a court order issued earlier this month that would allow the return of 14 illegally captured wild elephants to people accused ...

No passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred some 110 miles by road east of the capital Colombo. Railway authorities said an investigation was underway, and engineers were trying to put ...

Six elephants died after a train hit them on the tracks and then derailed at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP THOMAS KIENZLE Six elephants died after a ...

At least three wild elephants were found dead across Sri Lanka on Friday, officials said, a day after six young rescued elephants were returned to the jungle under a conservation drive. Wildlife ...

Sri Lanka's most sacred elephant passed away at the age of 68 on Monday, prompting an outpouring of grief and a presidential order for the huge cadaver to be stuffed and preserved for posterity.