Monday, April 09, 2007

Bonding through chena

A pilot project aims at making chena cultivators, the elephants’ number one enemy, their very protectors.

Kumudini Hettiarachchi, Sunday Times

March 24, 2007

For thousands of years the human-elephant conflict has dogged Sri Lanka. The plaintive cry in any dry zone village would be: “Aliya gahala merune” or “Ali ape kumburu vinasha kara”. (Died after being charged by an elephant or our cultivations were destroyed by elephants)

The pilot project is to be initiated in the south adjacent to the Yala National Park, The Sunday Times understands.

It will be implemented as soon as possible, said the Director-General of the Wildlife Conservation Department, Dayananda Kariyawasam.

Is there a permanent solution not only to this elephantine problem but also concrete measures that could be taken to conserve this majestic


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