COLOMBO — Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are celebrating the end of a 2020 decree that left the island’s nonprotected forests more vulnerable to agriculture and development projects.
While Sri Lanka allows electric fences to keep the animals ... that wander out of protected areas back in, because shrinking forests cannot support too many elephants. Prithviraj Fernando was ...
Uva Pathanbima, which includes the Nilgala Forest, one of the four unique ecological zones native to Sri Lanka, has yet to be gazetted as a protected forest. ..
These forests will enhance the environment by supporting biodiversity conservation ... 3.If the number of elephants within the corridors exceeds the capacity of the available resources, some elephants ...