A video of a Sri Lankan safari guide's quick thinking has gone viral. The guide averted a potentially dangerous encounter between tourists and a charging elephant.

Sri Lanka has a new answer to toll booths -- a tax-collecting elephant. Instead of searching the car for some spare change, you must offer up a tasty snack before Raja allows you to pass.

Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict (HEC) has become an increasingly tragic symbol of the struggle between conservation and development. As one of Asia’s most biologically diverse nations, the island ...

On a writ petition filed by animal rights activists and Buddhist and Christian organisations, the Court of Appeal has stayed the export of the baby elephant “Nandi” and fixed May 26 as the ...

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago arrived back in its birth country on Sunday, following a diplomatic spat over the animal’s alleged mistreatment. Thai authorities had gifted ...