A state-approved solar energy park in Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka is being developed on the edge of a managed elephant range, or MER, with some land clearances overlapping with elephant ranges.

The Chinese-funded Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport has no regular flights and has failed to generate enough revenue ...

The death of “Sujeewa,” a female elephant held under state custody for nearly a decade, has ignited renewed calls for accountability, transparency, and urgent reform in Sri Lanka’s handling of ...

Sri Lanka’s government issued a call on Sunday for investments in a currently loss-making airport, after a 30-year lease ...

Sri Lanka is spending hundreds of millions of rupees on elephant management strategies that scientists, affected communities, but Sri Lanka’s own National Action Plan (NAP), as all acknowledge, is ...

Agricultural expansion, fragmented habitats, and increasing attacks: the conflict leaves hundreds dead each year. The Jeep ...

Sri Lanka’s long-standing challenges in animal welfare have once again come into sharp focus, as conservationists and activists renew calls for urgent legal reform, humane population management, and ...

A group of barefoot Buddhist monks promoting peace, compassion, mindfulness and nonviolence has arrived in Sri Lanka, ...

Country has sought to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

OPINION- I first came in contact with elephants while living in Sri Lanka. I had gone to Udawalawe National Park in which there is the largest population of Asian elephants in all of Sri Lanka’s ...

The human–elephant conflict in Sri Lanka has claimed the lives of 143 people and elephants as of April 25 this year, data ...

Buffalos rest in the water at Yala National Park in Yala, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2026. (Xinhua/Xu Han) This photo taken on ...