Within Wilpattu they murdered in cold blood over 20 staff and labourers. Range Assistant H. H. Bandara and Bungalow Keeper Tennakoon were forced to guide them, and both then shot dead on the beach.

Thambapanni – the beach with copper sand and Kali Villu where Kuweni had her palace are located inside the park boundaries of Wilpattu. These areas of historic significance will soon be accessible to ...

The coastal road, hugging the spectacular Wilpattu beach has been cut through not only sand dunes and red-soil areas but also large shell deposits, he said. The interior road open to civilians is like ...

It was December 1983 when my friend Lakshman Siriwardhana, known as Lucky, and I arrived at the Talawila lodge in Wilpattu National Park just past noon and found the Park Warden, his deputy and a few ...

But, of all the bitterly fought media wars, the controversy over the Wilpattu National Park is easily one of the most savage and divisive. Not being limited to an environmental issue, it divided ...

No wildlife excursion can be truly experienced unless you go on safari and Wilpattu National Park is no stranger to expeditions thus far and you can be sure that leopards will almost always make a ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- The Attorney General informed the Supreme Court yesterday that authorities have decided to abandon plans for constructing an expressway through the Wilpattu Sanctuary.