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Skin and bone, a dead elephant at the Lunugamvehera Park

Driven to death

2007-04-01 - Lunugamvehera National Park, Sri Lanka. Kumudini Hettiarachchi

Is the very move – relocating elephants in the national parks – aimed at protecting these majestic animals killing them? Several of the elephants, about 250 herded into the Lunugamvehera Park, under two phases of an elephant drive that began in 2005, may have died for lack of food, resulting in malnourishment and disease, The Sunday Times learns, after a visit to the area this week. What will be the fate of the remaining elephants, considering that the dry season is just starting?


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