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 ...

Throughout my time in Sri Lanka, I learnt from our local guide, Sampath, an immense amount about the cultural importance of elephants, but being able to experience how that cultural importance ...

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.

Elephants aside, rare species of butterflies, orchids, the toque macaque, Sri ... Sri Lanka — and later Dudley Senanayake, along with several members of parliament. “I took to art,” he ...