Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six ...

Colombo — A Sri Lankan express train killed an elephant and was derailed on Tuesday despite safety measures introduced after the country's worst wildlife railway accident three months ago on the same ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Sri Lanka, wild elephants are often killed in train collision accidents along certain railway stretches. A recent accident killed seven ...

Around 14% of Sri Lanka’s total land area is dedicated to wildlife protected areas, which includes more than 20 national ...

Sri Lanka recently carried out a three-day elephant survey by counting the animals as they visited watering holes across the country. It’s the first such survey carried out since 2011, when Sri ...

People and elephants are increasingly competing for the same land in Sri Lanka, leading to a rising number of deaths among both populations. Farmers are increasingly "encroaching" on elephant habitats ...

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