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Senior environmental lawyer, Jagath Gunawardene spoke on the problems observed in the zoo. He showed us through an environmental perspective that the Dehiwala zoo, being in a residential area ...
July seems to be the month for new arrivals. As the world rejoiced at the birth of a Royal baby in England, here at the Dehiwala Zoo there was much happiness at the birth of a Zebra, baby Anacondas ...
The Dehiwala Zoological Gardens director Duminda Jayaratne has been asked to vacate office with immediate effect, on a directive from the Ministry of Public Recreation. For the past two plus years, Mr ...
A crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), one of the oldest reptile species at the National Zoological Gardens, died yesterday, due to old age, a Zoo official said. Zoo’s Director General, Dr. Thilak ...
The income of the Dehiwala Zoo has been on the increase, and it has received an income of Rs.52 million for the first 40 days of the year from 16,000 visitors. Director Operations H.A. Anoma ...
A hotel in front of the Dehiwala Zoo was attacked. The final blast occurred at a private house in Mahawila Gardens in the Dematagoda area while police officers conducted a raid in connection with ...
Images have circulated widely on social media showing severely emaciated lions in cages. But the Department of National Zoological Gardens, which manages Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo, has denied that the ...
Arundathi, who was released into the enclosure on Tuesday, and two other female anacondas have been named after the three veterinary doctors at the Dehiwala zoo in Sri Lanka ? Remani Jayaleth and ...
The Dehiwala Zoo and Pinnawala Zoo and Ridiyagama Safari Park will reopen to the public from tomorrow (February 01), officials said. The zoos had been temporarily closed as a result of the ...
A hotel in front of the Dehiwala Zoo was attacked. The final blast occurred at a private house in Mahawila Gardens in the Dematagoda area while police officers conducted a raid in connection with ...