Hurulu Forest Reserve of Sri Lanka was designated as a biosphere reserve in January 1977. The forest reserve is an important habitat of the Sri Lankan elephant, as it is located between Minneriya ...

The Minneriya tank fills up with the rains from the previous months, and as the drought settles in, the water level recedes, though the tank never really runs dry. Wild elephants from all the ...

A wewa, Peter Wise once insisted, is not a tank or a reservoir for those terms don’t capture the true social, cultural and ecological weight of this particular kind of water-body. People in Sri Lanka ...

Elephant Gathering at Minneriya : By Chathuri Dissanayake, Pix by Sanka Vidanagama: When the long drought season in the dry zone drags on over the months of July and August the tanks and other water ...

By Ifham Nizam The elephants living in the vicinity of Minneriya reservoir will be left without food if the amount of water released from the Moragahakanda Reservoir to the Minneriya Reservoir is not ...

A train collided with a herd of elephants in Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least six of them, according to Sri Lanka Police.. No passengers were injured, but wildlife veterinary ...

A train collision near Sri Lanka's Minneriya National Park killed at least six elephants, including four babies. The crash, which caused train derailment, occurred as the elephants attempted to ...

The Associated Press reported that in October at least two elephants were killed when a train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd in northwest Sri Lanka in the town of Minneriya ...