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New measures to ease human-elephant conflict [1]

In a bid to ease the growing human-elephant conflict in the country, wildlife authorities said yesterday that moves were underway to restrict the habitat of rogue elephants to a 2500 acre jungle area in Veheragala, Lunugamvehera and Horawapathana.

Wildlife Conservation Department, Director General, Chandrawansa Pathiraja said rogue elephants from other areas would be trans-located to these loca

Publication Date: 
11/05/2011
Olindhi Jayasundere [2]
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) [3]
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Wildlife [4], Sri Lanka [5], People - Animal Conflicts [6]
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