In Sri Lanka, agamid lizard species are growing increasingly vulnerable due to three main factors: shrinking habitats, climate change and being traded as exotic pets. The Indian Ocean island is home ...

COLOMBO — In December 2024, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed minister of agriculture K. D. Lalkantha told the Parliament that farmers should have the right to take action against crop-raiding wild animals.

Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan people, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war ...

In parts of Sri Lanka, wild elephants are not confined to reserves — they regularly move through roads, villages, and hiking ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger train hit an elephant herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, killing six of the animals, an official said on Thursday. Four babies and two adults died near ...

On Tuesday, for the first time in 80 years, twin elephants were born in captivity in Sri Lanka, according to wildlife officials. A 25-year-old elephant named Surangi gave birth to the twin males at ...

Conservationists have slammed a move by a Sri Lanka court to return 14 endangered elephants to the suspected traffickers they were originally seized from in 2015. The elephants are part of a group of ...

Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals. Giant waves washed ...

Saranga Dissanayak may be known for growing the many types of organic vegetables that he sells each week at the North End Community Improvement Collaborative North End Farmers Market. But Dissanayak, ...