Kangara said there was a popular belief that leopard meat could cure asthma. Police seized 37 pounds of leopard meat from the three suspects. There are believed to be fewer than 1,000 leopards in the ...

Leopard mothers often hide their cubs when they are going out hunting or in the process of relocation, and in Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands, workers on tea estates often pick up these cubs ...

In Sri Lanka, the human-leopard conflict arose as leopard habitats were encroached, ... These include taking their pet dogs into the house at night and we even started compensating people for good ...

A Sri Lanka court on Friday ordered the arrest of villagers who beat a leopard to death after the big cat, an endangered animal in the country, eluded capture by wildlife officials. Local ...

Among Sri Lanka’s charismatic species, the native subspecies of the leopard, Panthera pardus kotiya, is a favorite among wildlife enthusiasts and specialist photographers. Since 2018, there have ...

Tell us about the extent of the human leopard conflict in Sri Lanka. Luckily Sri Lanka does not have the type of issues faced by India or many African nations when it comes to wildlife conflict. We ...

Leopard conservation in Sri Lanka has been somewhat neglected until recently, with primary conservation efforts directed towards protecting the Sri Lankan elephant. Realising the need to address this ...

The discussion will be moderated by Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne the former President of the Society. This is surely a discussion to be followed by those who love the leopard. Panel: Prof. Enoka P.

We were on the hunt for leopards in Sri Lanka. In some ways, it seems like an easy task in Yala National Park, a 979-square-kilometer (378-square-mile) expanse abutting the Indian Ocean in the ...

Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested three people suspected of trapping and killing an endangered leopard and trying to sell its meat as a cure for asthma. We've detected you are on Internet Explorer.