Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece ...

Sri Lanka’s main elephant ­orphanage has marked its 50th ­anniversary with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece ...

The orphanage opened in 1975, but Sri Lanka is also now facing a human-elephant conflict in areas bordering traditional wildlife sanctuaries.

Sri Lanka marked the golden jubilee of the iconic Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage on Sunday, celebrating 50 years of caring for ...

Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage celebrates 50 years of providing sanctuary to elephants. Inaugurated in 1975 with five elephants, it now houses 69. The facility cares for strays and injured ...

The drive was detrimental to elephant conservation and neither did it help the farmers ... Some 44% of the land mass of Sri Lanka is shared by humans and elephants. This is not new. In previous times ...

Sri Lanka is planning to establish five elephant corridors in its north-central province to reduce human-elephant conflicts, <a ...

Muthu Raja was in pain and covered in abscesses when removed from the temple last November A Thai elephant given to Sri Lanka in 2001 has returned to its birthplace after a diplomatic row over its ...

It was disclosed in the Parliament today (06) that a total of 3,477 wild elephant fatalities have occurred in Sri Lanka over ...

In Sri Lanka, a charming elephant cheekily halts traffic for treats. This is an extract from a new episode of Asia, a seven-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough and dedicated to our ...

We arrived in Sri Lanka not long before midnight, and immediately jumped into a taxi for the four-hour drive to our location. We only made one stop along the way (for ice cream-filled coconuts ...

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms.