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Sri Lanka bans use of young elephants for work
Sri Lanka unveiled tougher laws Wednesday, including a ban on using young elephants for logging and other physical work, as part of a crackdown on cruelty to domesticated wild animals. Wildlife Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Pe...
2016-11-24   , Sri Lanka Category: welfare

Fundamental rights petition withdrawn
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the fundamental rights petition filed in respect of two baby elephants that had been offered to Sri Dalada Maligawa by the President. The Bench comprising Chief Justice Asoka de Silva, Ju...
2009-08-25   Colombo, Sri Lanka Category: welfare

Second zoo in Sri Lanka to be opened in June
The second zoological garden in Sri Lanka, which is currently under constructions, is scheduled to open by next June at Pinnawela in Kegalle about 80 km northeast of capital Colombo. Minister for Sports and Public Recreation ...
2009-01-17   Kegalle, Sri Lanka Category: zoo

Villagers fume after wild elephant kills man
Nearly 1,000 villagers from Gomadiyagala in the Polpithigama police area launched an agitation campaign against Wildlife Officers on Tuesday after a 25-year-old man was killed by a wild elephant near the Hakwatuna oya reservo...
2008-09-11   Polpithigama, Sri Lanka Category: conflict

Asokamala safe for now
The Yerevan Zoo in Armenia was in the news last year as animal rights activists battled Sri Lankan authorities in the Supreme Court to stop nine year old Asokamala, born at the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage from being exported...
2007-12-30   Colombo, Sri Lanka Category: welfare

Jumbo in the Supreme Court. What are the laws regarding the gifting of protected animals by Sri Lanka?
An elephant has been taken to court, not just any court but the highest in the land, the Supreme Court. Asokamala, born and bred at the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, has kicked up dust being in the centre of a controversy ove...
2007-11-24   Colombo, Sri Lanka Category: trade

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