In February and March 2025, visitors to Yala National Park stood in disbelief as torrents of brown water surged across once-dry tracks, submerging grasslands and turning familiar terrains into murky ...

20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison ...

The incident occured while a van with tourists was passing through the Yala National Park in southeast of the country, located about 300km from Colombo.

Yala is 260 kilometers (161 miles) from Colombo. It’s 190 kilometers (118 miles) from Galle to Yala National Park, using the Expressway.

Not surprising, given that Yala National Park has over 215 species of birds, seven of which are endemic to Sri Lanka.

Mysteries and surprises abound in the nocturnal world of Leopards of Yala. For more than a century, Yala National Park in Sri Lanka has been one of Asia’s most celebrated wildlife preserves, a ...

The Department of Wildlife Conservation has announced that a limited number of roads in Yala National Park, which were temporarily closed to tourists, will reopen from 2:00 PM today (5). The park was ...

The Yala National Park will be closed from September 01 to October 31 due to maintenance activities and the dry weather, the Department of Wildlife Conservation said.

The Wildlife and Forest Conservation Ministry has decided to designate the Lunugamvehera National Park as a wildlife zone belonging to the Yala National Park.The Lunugamvehera National Park is a park ...

The purr of engines can be heard as safari jeeps prowl around the jungle; their exhaust fumes dancing on the dawn mist at Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park. It’s like the warm-up lap at a Formula ...