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As people continue to encroach on the elephants’ habitats in Sri Lanka, photographer Federico Borella captured the complex conflict that’s causing casualties on both sides.
Historical Perspective The roots of the human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka trace back to centuries. Elephants have been deeply revered in Sri Lankan culture, symbolising wisdom, power, and ...
Kathmandu: Nepal's Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba on Saturday thanked External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for assisting in the evacuation of Nepali students from conflict-hit Iran, calling it ...
The death toll, both human and elephant, from Sri Lanka’s long-running human-elephant conflict problem hit a record high in 2022, with 145 people and 433 elephants killed. With the trend ...
Sri Lanka never made an honest attempt to build a proper defence against war crimes accusations. In the absence of a cohesive bi-partisan strategy on our part, those campaigning against the ...
In Sri Lanka, the human-elephant conflict (HEC) caused 443 elephant deaths and 145 human fatalities in 2022. This issue has significantly impacted both humans and elephants. To address this problem, ...
The Sri Lankan Conflict Sri Lanka’s government has scored a string of wins in its long-standing civil war with Tamil militants. But it faces the challenge of integrating its Tamil minority ...
Sri Lanka cannot be pushed and bumped into a global conflict and therefore it should be diligent in its dealings with various nations, a Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP said today. ..
The conflict - deadlier this year than the fighting in Afghanistan - has grown increasingly ferocious as a new government offensive pushes deep into the rebels' power base in the northern jungles.