Elephants vs Humans : Suriyawewa villagers unsafe

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A number of houses were damaged as elephants encroached on village settlements in Suriyawewa. The locals noted that they spend sleepless nights under the constant fear of elephant attacks. They added that elephants enter settlements in search of harvest stored on their properties. A victim noted that the existing electric fence is […]

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'Hanging' fence installed to keep away wild elephants

KOZHIKODE: A hanging fence has been installed on an experimental basis
in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) to prevent wild elephants from
straying into human habitations bordering forest areas.

The 200-metre-long solar-powered fence, put up at Anachira area under
the Muthanga forest range of the sanctuary, was devised by the final
semester students of the Government polytechnic, Mananthavady, as an
innovative solution to mitigate human- wildlife conflict.

WWS warden N T Sajan said the fence would help overcome the problem
of jumbos destroying the previously-used horizontal fences installed on
the ground using tusks.

"As the wires of the new fence dangle down from a height, they will be beyond the reach of elephant tusks," he said. Steel wires are hung in a row from a 3-m high horizontal overhead wire supported by posts on both ends. The wires would be connected to the solar power system and elephants would receive a mild shock if they try crossing through the hanging wires.

Sajan said the solution was cost effective when compared to conventional fences. It has been used in countries like Sri Lanka before. "It was found to be successful in Muthumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu," he added.

Forest officials said another advantage was that if at all an elephant breached the fence and entered human habitations, it could be driven back to the forests by temporarily switching off the current flowing through the fence.

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SADC pushes CITES to allow ivory trade

Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, which account for an estimated 61% of elephants in Africa, have submitted their position papers and are confident of getting the green light on raw ivory trade at the forthcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting scheduled for Colombo, Sri Lanka in May.

Signatories to CITES have until the end of this week to submit documents for consideration at the forthcoming CITES Cop18 meeting.

Southern African countries, which account for 61% of Africa’s elephant population, are for first time speaking with one voice in calling for the lifting of the ban in ivory trade.

As part of their submission, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana are seeking the green light on international trade in registered raw ivory.

Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) Public Relations Manager, Mr Tinashe Farawo said the country has already submitted its position paper, adding that notable achievements have been recorded since the last CITES meeting in elephant conservation and management.

“Together with the other SADC countries, Zimbabwe has submitted the position paper ahead of CITES Cop18. We have always said our elephants are not endangered and have over the past few years exceeded the carrying capacity,” Mr Farawo said1.

According to the 12-page proposal, the four countries are seeking the amendment of the annotation to the listing of the elephant populations in Appendix ii.

The listing of a species in Appendix i effectively prevents all commercial international trade, while those listed in Appendix ii can be traded under special permit conditions.

Wth a combined elephant population estimated to be around 250 000, the four countries are hopeful that this time around, they will be able to convince the CITES family to reconsider the international ban in ivory trade.

Critics of CITES however feel the decisions by the global body are geared at hurting developing countries and have called upon Southern African countries to reconsider their membership.

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73 year old dies in elephant attack

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A 73-year-old person has died in a wild elephant attack in Adampane, Nochchiyagama. The police said that the victim was attacked when he was trying to ward off the elephant who had entered his house. His body remains at the Nochchiyagama divisional hospital.

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Millions poured into jungle to save elephants, and still they die

The wildlife department spends a colossal Rs. 300 million a year on electric fences to save
elephant and human lives but constant political interference and poor siting of fences are
thwarting the strategy, former Wildlife Department director- general Sumith Pilapitiya said.

Dr. Pilapitiya, who himself had been involved in human-elephant conflict solutions during
his tenure, said most fences had been built for the wrong reasons and thus in the wrong locations.

“Around 65 per cent of these electric fences have been installed to partition the land belonging to the forestry and the wildlife departments. What must be done is to create an ecological
partition that would separate the humans and the elephants,” he explained.
As well, Dr. Pilapitiya charged, politicians constantly interfere, trying to change the boundaries of electric fence- demarcated areas in order to win votes from people wanting to settle
in those areas.

“If elephants could vote, politicians would have to be very careful about interfering over locations of electric fences,” he remarked.

Dr. Pilapitiya cites maintenance as another reason for the failure of such projects, pointing
out that simple factors can foil elaborate mechanisms.

“Wires in the fence become faulty if a piece of vegetation grows over them,” he said. Electric
fences were the most effective deterrent to human-elephant conflict but were not the solution, he emphasised.

Env i ronmental lawyer Jagath Gunawardena objects to the term coined for this issue.

“This is not a ‘human-elephant conflict’: this is an issue pertaining to the degradation and
destruction of the environment,” he said.

Mr. Gunawardena said the problem could be resolved by identifying and restoring the habitats
of the elephants, which have been destroyed. These habitats must be equipped with sufficient
resources such as food and water to help elephants remain in such areas and not roam into
villages.

The lawyer accuses officers who propose seemingly wide-ranging approaches to the problem
of always ending up with a narrow perspective, blaming the elephants for roaming into villages – villages that have been set up in areas that were once the habitat of elephants.
Conservation specialist Dr. Prithviraj Fernando rejects the notion of relying on the Wildlife
Department alone to solve the problem.

“There are only 1,000 wildlife officials out of nearly 1.2 million public service officers who
should extend their cooperation in this regard,” Dr. Fernando, Chairman of the Centre for
Conservation and Research, pointed out.

Dr. Fernando said the wildlife department had confused its role by engaging in activities such
as setting up fences to protect people whereas its duty was to protect wildlife.

“This issue can be resolved by adopting a national plan that revolves around stakeholder participation and the managing of elephants in their habitats itself,” the conservation body
chairman proposed.

The wildlife department says about Rs. 300 million is spent every year on installing electric
fences – with results that, more often than not, fail to meet expectations.

The death of a mason in Mahiyangana due to an elephant attack last Sunday was an example
of the many deaths that have been recorded as a result of human-elephant conflict.

The wildlife department wants people to take more responsibility for their behaviour to avoid
being attacked by elephants.

“The home ranges of elephants have been seriously disturbed and their habitats have been
reduced and fragmented,” the department’s Director- General, Chandana Sooriyabandara,
said, calling on the public to avoid encroaching or trespassing into such lands to avoid being
attacked by elephants.

Mr. Sooriyabandara noted that land routes through areas which were once habitats of elephants have created harm to both elephants and humans.

He dismissed claims of fences being installed in unsuitable locations.

“Around 90 per cent of the electric fences have been placed in strategic locations,” he said,
explaining that a strategic location refers to the outermost circle of land area belonging to the
forestry and wildlife departments.

The remaining 10 per cent of fences have been installed to prevent elephants from entering
into villages, he said, noting that enormous manpower was required to ensure the fences and
other programmes worked satisfactorily.

People should take lessons from the circumstances of previous elephant attacks, he said.
Elephant attacks mostly occur between from 5.30 to 8.30 in the mornings or evenings. Deaths
could be prevented if people took the precaution of not venturing into areas prone to elephant
attacks during these periods, Mr. Sooriyabandara said.

“If elephants could vote, politicians would have to be very careful about interfering over locations of electric fences.” Dr. Pilapitiya

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‘Electric fences, the only effective solution’

Environmentalists and wildlife conservation experts have told President Maithripala Sirisena and the Wildlife Conservation Ministry that it was not advisable to test the feasibility of various strategically-designed solutions for preventing the growing human-elephant conflict.

They said that the only effective solution was to continue the erection of electric fence systems with the support of villagers. They have explained that cutting trenches; as well as growing jute, palmyrah, lime, and bougainvillea in certain areas as protective fences; have also proven to be futile at preventing wild elephants from invading human settlements.

According to the environmental protection agencies and the Centre for Conservation and Research (CCR), around 70 to 75 people and about 250 to 300 wild elephants lose their lives due to the human-elephant conflict. Between 2013 and 2017 alone, the death toll of wild jumbos reported from the Anuradhapura, Central, East, North-west, Polonnaruwa, Uva, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, and Puttalam wildlife zones stood at 1,180, whereas its corresponding human casualties number 375. The number of wild elephant deaths in the aforementioned wildlife zones in 2018 was recorded to be 250.

The economic as well as other losses incurred as a result of the spike in the human-elephant conflict have increased poverty and impeded socioeconomic development. The CCR said that for over 60 years, solutions to the issue had been based on limiting elephants reserves under the jurisdictions of the Wildlife Conservation Department.

That approach has failed and, currently, over 70 percent of wild jumbos are roaming in areas outside the jurisdiction of the department. In fact, this method has resulted in an increased number of casualties in the conflict, the CCR added.

It has also been reported that the human-elephant conflict was prevalent in almost the entire dry zone. Various measures undertaken to resolve the human-elephant conflict; such as elephant translocation, elephant dives, electric fence systems, and the use of firecrackers; have hindered many elephants.

Environmental protection agencies highlighted that successful mitigation of the issue could not be executed by conservation agencies alone. The Centre for Conservation and Research had told authorities that the HEC should primarily ensure the well-being of the elephants, as they were helpless, and deprived of their habitats and security.

They added that while electric fences were the most effective tool for preventing wild elephants invasions, its use as a Wildlife Conservation Department jurisdiction boundary marker, has resulted in failure.

Currently, over 60 percent of over 4,300 kilometres of the department's electric fences are between the areas that come under the jurisdiction of the Wildlife and Forest Conservation departments, the Centre for Conservation and Research Chairman Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando said.

“There are elephants on both sides of most electric fences. Such fences are ineffective in mitigating the ongoing human-elephant conflict as there are no barriers between the elephants outside the fences and the villages. Furthermore, the fences are difficult to maintain and easily malfunction,” he added.

Dr. Fernando said, “Electric fences should only be used to protect settlements and crops. Hence, they should be constructed at the boundaries of developed areas or cultivated lands. Such fences can be easily constructed and maintained by the communities that are protected by them, and this approach has been successfully implemented, covering two Grama Niladhari divisions in the areas in which the human-elephant conflict is the highest: Galgamuwa and Ehetuwewa.”

“They have also been successfully implemented in a trial run in the Trincomalee and Hambantota districts. Such electric fences have effectively mitigated the conflict over the past eight years in the North-west as well,” the CCR Chairman added.

“Similarly, electric fences constructed by farmer organisations around paddy fields, can effectively prevent wild elephant invasions as well. Farmers construct such fences when they begin their cultivation activities, as well as when they commence the harvesting process. About 30 such fences have been deployed in the South and North-west, and have worked successfully for the past five years,” Dr. Fernando added.

“Such people-centric human-elephant conflict management solutions at the appropriate scale, can only be conducted by agencies that have the authority as well as the relationship with people such as the administrative and agricultural sectors, and not by conservation agencies,” the CCR Chairman said.

“Given the extent and scale of the conflict, successful mitigation measures will bring major political benefits, especially with regard to the rural constituency. If the conflict is to be managed effectively, people who are affected by the conflict need to play a major role in managing it, and the administrative and agricultural sectors need to assist them,” Dr. Fernando said.

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Indian Elephant strips off banana tree bark for a chewy meal

An Indian Elephant eating a banana tree.

The elephant was in captivity but part of an ethical organisation. The Elephant wasn't allowed to be ridden, nor kept in chains.

Filmed near Rambukkana in Sri Lanka.

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Man vs Elephant ; Man killed in Mahiyanganaya

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A group of locals in Mahiyanganaya staged a protest obstructing the 17th milepost area along the Mahiyanganaya – Bibile main road today (March 10).

The protest commenced following an elephant attack early this morning (March 10) that claimed the life of a 54-year-old resident of the area. The deceased, Somadasa is a father of three and had left the residence for work when he met this tragic fate.

The protestors were adamant that the government should support the family at least until the eldest daughter graduates from the university. They also noted that authorities are inconsiderate about their plight and did not take the necessary steps to avoid tragedies of this nature. With the arrival of the police at the scene, the protestors stated that they would not leave until their demands are met.

A group of protestors also invaded the Mapakadawewa wildlife office premises which is half a kilometre from the unfortunate incident. The protest took a violent turn when a woman dashed a wildlife signboard on the ground. It was evident that the officials of the office had vacated the premises following the incident.

Somadasa, a mason had managed to educate his eldest daughter to enter a university had always wished to see his other two young children follow the same path.

It is possible that this won’t be the last tragedy of this nature.

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Mahiyanganaya locals protest against wild elephant attack

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A group of locals in Mahiyanganaya are currently staging a protest obstructing the 17th milepost area along the Mahiyanganaya – Bibila main road.

The protest was launched following an elephant attack early this morning (March 10) that claimed the life of a 54-year-old resident of the area. The deceased is a father of three. The victim met with the unfortunate accident when he was walking on the way to his workplace.

The protestors urge that necessary steps be taken to eradicate the issue of wild elephants roaming in villages. News1st correspondent reported that the protest has caused significant traffic congestion in the area.

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Wild elephants cause damage to paddy fields

A herd of wild elephants that raided the paddy elds in Digawapi had caused extensive damage to crops and even to machinery in the threshing oors. The owner of a mechanical reaper
destroyed by the jumbos said the machine had not been insured and that he incurred a loss of
Rs.3.5 million.

The wild elephants had attacked wayside stalls in Digawapia selling refreshments to the travellers. Residents of the area said the herd had pulled down the electric fence and made their
way into the villages.

Ampara District Asst.director of Wildlife Conservation K.g.wickremetilleka said steps were
now being taken to erect a new electric fence to resolve the issue.

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EU urged to do more to tackle illegal trade in #Ivory

EU environment ministers are holding talks in the hope of agreeing a proposal for further ivory trade restrictions in the next two weeks to be presented at the CoP in Sri Lanka in May.

Ahead of that meeting, the EU is being urged to “be brave” and close its markets now like other nations including China.

It is alleged that European and Japanese markets fuel the illegal trade in poaching and the killing of elephants. There is also increased evidence of a link between the EU legal market in ivory and the illegal trade.

Many member states and international players are closing their markets to the illegal trade but the EU is said to be still “behind the curve”.

Speaking in Brussels, Kenya’s minister for tourism and wildlife Najib Balala, also co chair of the African Elephant Coalition, said: “All legal ivory markets – whether in Asia or Europe – fuel illegal trade, poaching and killing of elephants.”

The comments are backed by the 32-member state African Elephant Coalition (AEC) which has called on the European Union, as one of the world’s largest traders in ivory, to take immediate action to close its domestic markets.

Member states are formulating the EU position on ivory trade in advance of the 18th Conference of the Parties of CITES, the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (CoP18), to take place in Sri Lanka, 23rd May – 3rd June.

Minister Balala met Jyrki Katainen,Vice-President of the European Commission, to make the case for the EU to end its ivory trade and close its domestic market. The Minister also met the Japanese Ambassador to the EU to communicate the concerns of the Coalition and to discuss how legal ivory markets in the EU and Japan fuel illegal trade, poaching and killing of elephants in Africa.

Elephants are declining significantly throughout Africa and Asia. Every year, at least 20,000 African elephants are killed illegally for their ivory and only bold action now can save this iconic animal from becoming extinct in many parts of its range within the decade.

Campaigners want the EUI to close its domestic ivory markets and follow the lead of China, the US, Taiwan, Singaporeand Hong Kong SARwho have taken, or are taking, steps to close their domestic ivory markets. During the last decade approximately 144,000 elephants were killed across Africa due to poaching.

Minister Balala said: “To assume – as many EU member states do – that there is no link between domestic ivory markets in Europe and Asia and illegal trade and killing of elephants in Africa is a flawed basis on which to develop EU conservation policy. Most other countries with significant legal markets have realised that there is a clear link between their domestic ivory markets and illegal trade and poaching and have closed them down. We call on the EU and Japan to follow suit.”

Campaigners say that legal markets can serve as a cover for laundering ivory from poached elephants into trade, including within the EU. Allowing the sale of ivory reinforces its social acceptability and makes it a desirable product to own or even invest in, further fuelling the illegal market and stimulating transnational wildlife crime. Ivory trafficking exacerbates conflict, corruption, and poverty, and weakens local and national security and governance.

In addition, following the agreement at CoP14 at The Hague in June 2007 to have a one-off sale of ivory stocks originating from Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana to Japan and China in 2008, poaching levels in east Africa spiked.

At the latest meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, in October 2018, parties from Africa, including AEC members and Asia, strongly supported the closure of all remaining ivory markets.

A number of EU member states have banned/are banning ivory trade including France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the UK, which in December 2018 adopted one of the toughest set of ivory trade restrictions in the world. “While we appreciate the measures taken by the EU and its member states so far, we consider it essential to take further action to close the internal market and external trade in worked ivory. Otherwise it will present a continuing threat to our elephants,” added Balala.

“We have always seen the EU as the global standard-bearer for promoting and protecting international biodiversity, whose high standards should be emulated and to which all others should aspire. Europe leads the way on many conservation issues and cannot afford to be behind the curve on the ivory trade.”

He added: “I therefore appeal to the European Commission and to EU Environment Ministers to demonstrate leadership by closing your domestic markets forthwith. As we cooperate more closely with the EU, particularly within the context of the Africa/EU partnership, we need Europe to join us and become a leader with those countries that are taking action to close domestic ivory markets around the world.”

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300 Mourning Elephants Come to Say Final Goodbyes After Their Leader Passes Away

A heartbreaking video clip of a herd of elephants mourning the death of their leader has left many netizens deeply moved by the empathy these animals have.

Emotions cannot be measured scientifically, but animal experts have observed and documented that elephants exhibit a complex range of feelings very similar to humans. They feel sadness, joy, love, jealousy, fury, grief, compassion, and distress.

Moreover, elephants express bereavement in a unique manner as seen in some video footage that is making the rounds on the internet.

On the banks of a lake near Anuradhapura, not far from the Kalawewa reserve in Sri Lanka, lies the body of a dead elephant apparently killed by a rival. The dead elephant happened to be the leader of a herd, according to the MailOnline.

Around 10 elephants can be seen in the video gathering around to mourn their fallen leader; many stand by the carcass silently.

A baby elephant gently stretches out its trunk to “hug” the leader goodbye before turning to leave with the group.

The melancholic scene was captured on film by locals who came to witness the extraordinary moment.

Around 300 elephants were reported to have assembled nearby even though they were not part of the herd.

Non-related elephants have been known to pay respects to other dead elephants, such as touching the carcass or using leaves to cover the bones.

These majestic animals may spend hours or days at a location where a family member died. If they travel away and return, the elephants will stop at the same spot as if to pay their respects.

A study in 2006 done by Oxford University also points out that humans usually reserve their grief for friends and family, while elephants mourn over the death of the loosest acquaintance.

Biologist George Wittemeyer, who studies elephants, told National Geographic that animals “have respect for their dead, but their interaction with their dead is not something we fully understand…”

Wittemeyer also added, “The fact that they interact and have behavioral interactions with their dead in a form that is not explainable in any simple, evolutionary context speaks to the deeper emotional lives of elephants that we can’t easily study.”

In another instance, researcher Shifra Goldenberg shared some rare footage with National Geographic of several elephants standing near the remains of an old female elephant named Victoria.

Victoria had a natural death in 2013 at Kenya’s Sumburu National Reserve. She was surrounded by family and also others who were not related to her.

Goldenberg then told National Geographic, “What the family was doing was interesting, but what her non-relatives were doing is also important.”

She also added: “You see their investigation of the body. You see calves walking past and smelling it. It is amazing to see that level of fascination. Her family was distressed that she wasn’t getting up. But the larger population also was interested in her death.”

This should come as no surprise, because an elephant never forgets.

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Students swap classroom for Sri Lankan jungle, stopping elephants from destroying crops

Five students from Alice Springs have swapped their classroom for the jungles of Sri Lanka, helping to keep elephants from crops and building a school for primary students.
St Philips College is one of 18 schools across Australia to get involved with Round Square — a global charity providing experiential learning and character education for students.

Since getting involved with the organisation in 1996, the college has taken more than 50 students to at least 10 countries.

Vocational education and training coordinator Kate Anderson took the students to Wasgamuwa National Park for three weeks to take part in the charity's Big Build project.

"The human elephant conflict is a huge problem over there," she said.

"The booming population has meant that cities are bigger and parklands are smaller.

"The elephants need specific migratory patterns. If there is a house in the way or a paddock in the way they'll still use that specific pathway."

Ms Anderson was leading a conservation project to help farmers protect their rice paddies.

"We were digging holes to plant citrus trees with local farmers because the trees proved a barrier to elephant migratory patterns," she said.

"When the trees grow up they deter the elephants from ruining the crops and damaging property. They also provide a source of income for the farmers being able to sell the oranges."

Ms Anderson said elephants and humans were dying as a result of the conflict.

"On day three at one of our farms, the farmer pointed out the elephant footprints where an elephant had walked through his farm a week before — and they were the size of dinner plates," she said.

"So yeah, that certainly puts into perspective the danger that they face every single day."

Jessica Nowland, 17, helped build a classroom and a computer room for the community there.

"We also did some clearing so that the school could have a new cricket pitch. We did some little side projects like hopscotch and built a little playground for the school as well," she said.

"It was a lot of hard work and because we didn't have all that machinery we had to do a lot of passing bricks and rubble all by hand.

"Over the days you got to know all the people around you, so it became a lot easier."

Jessica was initially overwhelmed by the differences between the arid outback of Alice Springs and Sri Lanka.

"I've never seen anything more green in my life. The trees. It's quite indescribable to be surrounded by so much life," she said.

"You would look in one spot and there'd be birds and flowers of all different colours. It was just absolutely beautiful. It was amazing for Alice Springs girls to see that sort of thing, a massive contrast.

"I've always wanted to do something with health and I feel like seeing all these different places on the other side of the world has really inspired me to travel with my profession and so I think that I will definitely be incorporating that into my future life."

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TRISH SEWE AND VICTORIA WANGUI: Marching to protect wildlife

Every year hundreds of cities across the globe organise a Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions. The event held in more than 130 countries brings thousands of people from various walks of life to advocate the protection of wildlife. Wildlife populations in Africa and around the world are declining rapidly due to threats such as habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, poaching, climate change and unsustainable trophy hunting. The illegal trade in wildlife parts continues to deplete the species numbers.

In 2017 WildlifeDirect together with Kenya Wildlife Service and Stand Up Shout Out partnered with 30 organisations to plan the biggest march in the whole world, which generated global awareness about the plight of elephants, rhinos and lions. More than 2,000 people marched for 15km in Nairobi under the scorching heat.

Last year’s Global March was postponed to April 13 this year to coincide with the World Wildlife Conference. The 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora) will be held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from May 23 to June 3. This year’s march is set to be even bigger and better and continues to advocate the strongest protections possible for endangered species that will possibly drive policy change at CoP18.

Last year was one of the harshest for wildlife, and especially rhinos. In March the world lost the last known male Northern White Rhino and in July, 11 black rhinos in a botched translocation in Kenya. According to Save The Rhino, the black rhino population is estimated to be between 5,040 and 5,458 in the wild in Africa. Kenya's black rhino population was at 696 as at the end of 2016. A month later, Feisal Mohammed, who had been sentenced in 2016 to 20 years imprisonment and fined Sh20 million for allegedly trafficking in 2,152kg of elephant ivory was released.

Two fugitives who are on Interpol’s most wanted list, Nicholas Mweri Jefwa and Samuel Bakari Jefwa, are still on the run. These raise an alarm on Kenya’s justice system and call for improving convictions against high-profile wildlife traffickers.

Elephants have declined to almost a third of their population within a decade, with an average of 35,000 poached every year due to global demand for ivory. Africa’s lion population has declined by 43 per cent, with an estimated 23,000 left, while pangolins remain the most trafficked mammal in the world.

This year’s march will advocate the closure of domestic markets, ban on trade in lion bones, pangolin scales, elephant ivory and rhino horn, canned lion hunting, live export of elephants and trophy imports.

Since 2013, when the first Global March was held, it has generated immense global media attention and sparked public interest. This has brought to the limelight the trade in illegal wildlife parts, prompting governments to ban the trade in their countries.

China, one of the largest markets for ivory, banned domestic trade in ivory in early 2017. Late last year, the UK’s bill on ivory became law, banning ivory sales, and Hong Kong is expected to close its ivory market by 2021. While this is a step in the right direction, and maybe a reprieve for wildlife, a lot still needs to be done.

Ranked fourth after drugs, arms and human trafficking, wildlife crime is a major threat to wildlife and cannot be won by any single country except through global partnership.

While Kenya is on course to achieve the Big Four agenda, we cannot ignore the fact that wildlife and environmental conservation is crucial to economic growth. Tourism accounts for 14 per cent of Kenya’s GDP. Wildlife remains one of the top attractions for tourists. Overlooking it as we address the Big Four can be detrimental to achieving vision 2030 and becoming a middle-income country.

We urge all Kenyans to show up in large numbers on April 13 for the Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions, Nairobi edition. Let’s lend our voice to create global awareness and call for Africa to unite in seeking the strictest measures to protect wildlife. The Global March will offer the youth a platform to contribute meaningfully to wildlife conservation.

We want to thank WildlifeDirect, World Leaders of Today (formerly SUSO), Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi County Government, African Wildlife Foundation, Africa Network for Animal Welfare, Born Free Foundation, Dvur Kralove Zoo, East African Wild Life Society, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mpala Research Centre, Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservation, Nature Kenya, Save The Elephants, The Big Five Wildlife, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, Safaricom PLC, Sarova Hotels, Safarilink, Game Watchers, Kenya Wine Agency Limited, Exposure Safaris, VIVO Energy and Africa Nazarene University for their support during the 2017 Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions.

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Wild Sri Lankan Elephants Retreat From Sound Of Asian Honey Bees

For the first time, researchers have shown that Asian elephants in Sri Lanka are scared of honey bees, much like their African counterparts.

Playbacks have been used for many years to explore the behavioural responses of African elephants to a suspected natural threat. However, the research published in Current Biology, is the first time this technique has been used to record how Asian elephants react to the sound of bees.

The study, led by Dr Lucy King, a Research Associate with the Department of Zoology at Oxford University and head of the Human-Elephant Co-Existence Program for Save the Elephants, showed that Asian elephants responded with alarm to the bee simulations. They also retreated significantly further away and vocalised more in response to the bee sounds compared to controls.

In collaboration with elephant scientists from Cornell University, Save the Elephants, Trunks and Leaves, Disney’s Animal Kingdom and University of Peradeniya the team now hope that beehive deterrents, used so successfully to ward off African elephants from rural farm lands, can be applied to prevent Asian elephant populations from raiding crops.

Dr Lucy King said: 'Asia has even higher levels of human-elephant conflict than Africa does and Asian elephants are approximately 10 times more endangered than African elephants. If we could help apply the results from this research to develop effective community-based beehive fence deterrent systems for rural Asian farmers living with elephants, we could have a significant impact on the survival of the Asian elephant species.'

The study was performed in Udawalawe National Park, which has an exceptionally large elephant population. 'Udawalawe is a microcosm for the issues Asian elephants face, because it is practically encircled by agriculture and settlements. This study takes the first step in offering a new way of addressing the conflicts that arise as a result,' said Dr. Shermin de Silva, Director of the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project.

In partnership with the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia’s Newcastle University, a network of 10 trial beehive fence projects are presently being tested to see if they can reduce human-elephant conflict for rural farms in central Sri Lanka.

'We have a wonderful community of willing farmers there who are helping us understand if beehive fences could work to reduce conflict in this intensely high human-elephant conflict zone,' said Dr King. 'Although beehive fences may not completely stop elephant crop-raids the honey bees provide other benefits to the farms in the form of pollination services and a sustainable income from honey and wax products'.

The initiative is already harvesting honey from the beehives and four beekeeping workshops have been held to boost beekeeping knowledge and honey processing skills. Further Asian beehive fence collaborations are being formed with scientists in Thailand, India and Nepal.

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Sakrebailu Elephant Camp helps in domesticating rescued elephants from across the country

Sakrebailu Elephant Camp helps in domesticating rescued elephants from across the country

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Sri Lanka reaffirms wildlife protection ahead of global conference

ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka's tourism and wildlife minister reaffirmed to protect wildlife and end illegal trade of endangered species ahead of hosting the 18th conference of the parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in May and June.

“Sri Lanka's resolve towards eradication of the menace of illegal trade of endangered species is well documented and we remain firmly committed to the protection of all species," Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said.

"As a marine and biological hotspot in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka is proud to be only the second island nation to host CITES CoP," he said.

"The fact that the meeting in Sri Lanka is carbon sensitive also shows our commitment to the environment."

The CITES CoP conference in Colombo will bring in over 3,500 international delegates, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) said.

CITES regulates international trade in over 36,000 species of plants and animals, including their products and derivatives, to ensure their survival in the wild with benefits for the livelihoods of local people and the global environment.

The CITES permit system seeks to ensure that international trade in listed species is sustainable, legal, and traceable.

The conference will discuss key topics including enforcement, capacity building, and traceability as well as the conservation of, and trade in, elephants, rhinoceroses, big cats, sturgeons, and agar wood.

Sri Lanka will also be showcasing successes in conserving local plants and wildlife, SLTDA said.

This will be the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in South Asia since CoP3 held in New Delhi, India in 1981. It will also be the second CoP to be held in an island country. (Colombo/Feb18/2019-SB)

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Elephant dies after falling into cesspit

A wild elephant, who had fallen into a cesspit of a house, has died this morning, said Ada Derana reporter.

The incident had taken place last night (17) near a house in Kuda Oya area of Wellawaya Divisional Secretariat.

The elephant had, reportedly, sustained critical injuries to its back after falling into the cesspit.

The officers of Kitulkotte wildlife division and the residents of the area had carried out a joint rescue mission to save the trapped elephant since this morning (18).

However, the elephant, suspected to be aged 20-30 years, succumbed to injuries at around 10.30 a.m. in the morning.

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Elephant attack in Eravur: One dead

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A 31-year-old woman was reported dead in an elephant attack in Sandhiweli, Vaththiyakal, Eravur.

The Police said that the victim had met with the unfortunate incident when she was returning home after visiting her mother’s house that was located about 300m away. The post-mortem examination is due to be conducted today (February 18).

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No action on AG’s 2018 report on Wildlife Department

It has been almost a year since the Auditor General presentad a damning report highlighting the unsatisfactory performance of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), but little has been done by the authorities to follow up on its recommendations.

In a special audit report in March last year, Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe made several startling observations on the performance of the DWC, stressing that the authorities need to pull their socks up in the efforts to conserve the wildlife, especially the elephants.

The report highlighted 27 ‘observations’ and 14 ‘recommendations’ after thorough investigations which included examination of registers, books and reports, conduct of interviews, and physical inspections, but the DWC has been slow in making real progress and has been indifferent to some findings.

The report was prepared in the wake of the aggravated human-elephant conflict and the increased number of killings of tuskers.

The report stated that only one of the 17 elephant corridors identified was gazetted. “Only the elephant pass at Kawdulla – Minneriya was published in the Gazette (in 2004). Elephant passes at ‘Koholankala, Unathuwewa, Wetahirakanda, Dahayyagala, Puwakpele, Ulhitiya, Hungamalaoya, Mahawewa, Rathnella, Digampothana, 5th Post, Nachchaduwa-Mahakandarawa, Nachchaduwa-Wilpattu, Sooriyapura, Madupara and Puluyankulama’ have not been gazetted. The failure in the legal opening of 16 identified elephant passes approved by Cabinet had resulted in the increase in the number of deaths of elephants and humans,” the report stated.

A senior official of the DWC, who wished not to be named, told the Sunday Observer that 16 elephant corridors are located in the lands belonging to the Department of Forest Conservation (DFC) and therefore, it was not fair to point a finger at the DWC only. However, the AG in his report has clearly stated that the DWC has legal provisions under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance for “The protection of wildlife resources found outside wildlife reservations”.

Work together

The DWC official said that several public institutions and Local Government bodies need to work together to clear the lands in elephant corridors.

“There are human encroachments in most of these lands. Clearing them is not easy as there are political, economic and social dimensions to it.

This is not a task the DWC can do single-handedly. There are villages, cultivations and settlements on those lands and many of those occupants are poverty-stricken. A nationally coordinated effort is needed to resettle them and find them alternative income avenues,” he said.

This point has also been emphasised in the AG’s report which states that “The proper achievement of conservation of wild animals had been obstructed due to the unavailability of a proper co-ordination with institutions such as the DWC, DFC and Mahaweli Development Authority”. The DWC official, however, explained that land use patterns in elephant corridors were now being identified with the use of ‘Google Maps’ and this study has been assigned to the University of Peradeniya.

“Land use maps on four elephant corridors were completed last year,” he noted.

The audit report was also critical of the fact that the DWC was paying little attention to overcome obstructions on elephant passes while spending millions of rupees on driving away elephants and the purchase of elephant crackers.

The special audit report revealed that garbage is disposed in 54 places in wildlife zones and more than 300 wild elephants hang around them. “A large number of wild elephants face various diseases and die due to garbage intake. Veterinary Surgeons said that non-degradable polythene, shopping bags, and plastic bottles were found in the stomachs of elephants in post mortems carried out. Although this can be avoided by constructing electric–fences, the DWC had failed to carry out a proper procedure with the relevant Local Authorities,” the report stated.

Responding to this audit observation, the DWC official said those places, except two or three, again do not belong to the lands under the Department’s purview. “True, those places are in close proximity to wildlife areas, but the relevant Local Government (LG) Authorities should take responsibility for them.

There are two or three places where garbage is disposed of in wildlife reserves, but none in National Parks. There is a Cabinet decision that the DWC should erect the electric fences when there is a request from the LG body.

The maintenance is the responsibility of that LG body. Now there is a joint program for that and so far we have constructed five electric fences on the request of the LG bodies in areas where garbage is disposed,” he commented.

According to the data of the DWC, 38 tuskers had died from 2012 to 2017. “Proper action had not been taken for the security of the tusker Dala Poottuwa who was blind due to gunshots. The moving pattern of that animal had not been identified. These were an indirect support to the killing of the tusker.

Dearth of staff

“Even though it is the responsibility of the DWC to prepare a methodology in protecting tuskers at present, it was observed that such a methodology was not available,” the report stated.

The wildlife official responded that the DWC while struggling with a shortage of staff is not in a position to assign one officer each to provide security to every tusker. “Such a system is found in some African countries, but given the habitat size and the human resources we have, it is difficult to do it in Sri Lanka. We can only adopt conservation methods that apply to all tuskers collectively,” he said.

The shortage of staff is another point highlighted in the AG’s report. It observed that 536 vacancies existed in the DWC as at the end of 2017. “The duties of 33 officers were done by five officers,” the report said.

The wildlife official said the Department is now recruiting new wildlife rangers based on the results of a competitive examination held last year.

Another salient point in the AG’s report is the need to limit the number of vehicles entering the Yala National Park daily.

“Wildlife habitats become polluted due to stirring up of dust as a result of the entrance of a large number of vehicles at once to the Yala National Park and their fast running.

The average number of motor vehicles that arrived was about 250 per day and exceeded 700 during school vacations. As the Park is overcrowded from 6 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm, the traffic condition of the Yala National Park is no better than what we experience in Colombo (Especially at the Palatupana Access),” the report stated.

The DWC officer, who spoke to the Sunday Observer, wished not to elaborate. “Had there been no political meddling this could have been controlled,” he said.

Referring to statistics from 2015 up to November 2017, the report stated that no action had been taken against 341 cases out of 384 elephant killings reported due to human activities.

The wildlife official said that there are practical limitations for the Department to file cases on elephant killings. “We inform the court on every elephant death by submitting a ‘B’ report. If we are to file a case, we must have a witness but in many cases finding a witness or a suspect is difficult. We can find some evidence if the elephant died on the spot after suffering serious gunshot injuries.

There are instances where the elephant roams in the forest for months with injuries and finally resorts to death. Our officers only find its carcass in the forest. Then we can hardly find a suspect or a witness. We encounter such practical problems when proceeding to legal action,” he said.

“It is not that we have overlooked the issues in the report. We responded to the audit inquiries in writing and we have done our best to mitigate those issues,” he said.

The AG in his report stated that only four percent of the Wildlife Conservation Fund was spent on the improvement of enrichment of animals in parks. “Even though Rs.1.85 billion had been earned from 26 National Parks in 2016, the expenditure incurred for habitat enrichment of the wild animals is Rs.71 million. It is a low percentage of four percent,” the report stated.

The senior wildlife official, however, noted that the money in the Fund had been spent in line with the Fund’s guidelines, and in addition government allocations too had been utilised for the welfare of wild animals and habitat protection.

The audit had revealed that the racketeers of catching calf elephants illegally from forests had become active again due to the failure in expediting the implementation of law. It added that the officers of the DWC had also been involved in this racket.

The AG in his report stated, “It is concluded that the elephant resource will become extinct in Sri Lanka in the ensuing years, if a proper arrangement will not be made without delay to control the human elephant conflict.”


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Wildlife officer killed in wild elephant attack

A wildlife officer was killed following an elephant attack on Thursday night in Nelumwewa area in Polonnaruwa during a mission of chasing away wild elephants, Police said.

The victim, who was identified as D. M. Aruna Shantha (35), was attached to the wildlife office in Polonnaruwa.

He was a father of two and a resident of New Town, Uduwela in Polonnaruwa.

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Sri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map

• Researchers have produced the first ever data-based distribution map of Asian elephants for Sri Lanka. This is also the first evidence-based distribution map of Asian elephants for any of the 13 range countries, the researchers say.

• The study found that elephants currently occur in 60 percent of Sri Lanka, a figure that’s higher than previous estimates based on expert opinions, and also higher than that for any other range state.

• The majority of the elephants occur outside protected areas, sharing space with humans, the study found. So trying to confine the animals to the limits of protected areas is not a sound conservation strategy, the researchers say.

Instead, they recommend a “human–elephant coexistence model,” one that aims to reduce conflict by protecting villages and cultivations with barriers.

For a large, charismatic and endangered species such as the Asian elephant, you might think scientists would have figured out where they hang out and when. But it turns out, there’s very little evidence-based information on their distribution across countries in Asia. Researchers in Sri Lanka, however, are filling in some of this information gap.

By conducting interview surveys across the island nation over four years, researchers have now produced a countrywide, data-based distribution map of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) for the country. This isn’t just Sri Lanka’s first such map, the researchers say in a new study published in Oryx — it’s also the first evidence-based distribution map of Asian elephants for any of the 13 range countries. Previous distribution estimates either covered smaller areas within host countries, or were based on “guesswork and conjecture,” the researchers say.

An elephant herd in Sri Lanka. Image courtesy of Jennifer Pastorini.

To find out where elephants occur in Sri Lanka, Prithiviraj Fernando, an elephant expert at Sri Lanka’s Centre for Conservation and Research, and his colleagues divided the country into a grid with nearly 2,750 cells, each 25 square kilometers (9.7 square miles) in area (the cell size was based on the smallest known home range of Sri Lankan elephants). Then, between 2011 and 2015, the researchers interviewed three residents per grid cell. If a cell didn’t have any residents, such as those that fell within a protected area, the team estimated the presence of elephants based on the four adjoining cells. The team also validated some of the interview data using GPS locations of elephants that the researchers tracked from 2004 to 2018.

In all, the researchers found that elephants currently occur across 60 percent of Sri Lanka, a figure that’s higher than previous estimates based on expert opinions. This is also a much higher percentage than that of any other range country, Fernando told Mongabay.

The majority of Sri Lanka’s elephants live outside protected areas, the study found. There, they jostle for space with humans in landscapes consisting of forests and scrubland intermixed with farmland and villages and towns.

“This study documents in a very robust way something that has been known for a long time — the fact that elephant populations depend on land outside protected areas. So in that sense, this is nothing surprising,” Shermin de Silva, a conservation biologist and director of the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project, who was not involved in the study, told Mongabay. “But what is interesting is that it quantifies just how much area the range actually covers, and it seems to be far greater than prior estimates.”

Most elephant habitat in Sri Lanka is contiguous, which means the elephants are one continuous population, the study found. “Because it is one population it is more resilient and has a better conservation outlook than if it was fragmented, so it is very important to make sure it remains so,” Fernando said.

Much of southwestern Sri Lanka, however, known as the “wet zone,” is heavily developed and densely populated, and thus has virtually no elephants. There are only two isolated populations of elephants there, one in Peak Wilderness Sanctuary and another in Sinharaja Forest Reserve. These two populations, Fernando said, are the “last of the wet zone elephants.”

“The Sinharaja population is all but extinct with only two males left,” he said. “From a conservation point of view what should be done is to try and revive these populations and prevent them going extinct. However there is no likelihood there will be any effort in that direction.”

The Sri Lankan elephants also seem to have lost around 16 percent of their range in the past 55 years, the study found, suggesting that their population may actually be declining. Moreover, wherever the elephants do co-occur with people, there is intense conflict, the study found.

For an elephant population that occurs predominantly outside protected areas in space shared with humans, trying to confine the animals to the limits of protected areas is not a sound conservation strategy, the researchers say. Such an approach, which typically involves driving the elephants away, only leads to an escalation of conflict, they add.

Instead, the authors recommend a “human-elephant coexistence model,” one that aims to reduce conflict by protecting villages and cultivations with barriers such as electric fences. “This approach has been incorporated into the National Policy for Elephant Conservation and Management in Sri Lanka but is yet to be fully implemented,” they write in the paper.

“The fact that elephants currently seem to be sustaining themselves in highly disturbed, human-modified landscapes indeed argues for devoting more attention and resources to managing these landscapes in a manner compatible with conservation,” de Silva said. “But it would be dangerous to suggest that such landscapes might actually be more suitable for elephants than the large un-fragmented wildlands that would have constituted the bulk of elephant habitat until quite recently.”

De Silva said the distribution of conflicts and conflict-related mortality showed that elephants pay a heavy price for living near people. “In many areas what we could be seeing is a situation in which elephants, being long-lived, enduring in an environment that changed rapidly within their lifetimes, but which may not sustain future generations,” she said. “The authors do point out that there is a lag period between development and population extinction, but don’t seem to fully recognize its implications for these findings.”

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Elephant kills wildlife officer in Nelum wewa

COLOMBO (News 1st) – A wildlife officer was killed this morning(February 15) when he was attacked by an elephant during an operation to chase away wild elephants in the Nelum wewa forest reserve in Aralaganwila.

Police stated that the deceased was an attached to the Polonnaruwa Zonal Wild Life Office.

He was a 40-year-old resident of New Town, Aluthwewa.

The body of the deceased currently lies at the morgue of the Polonnaruwa Hospital.

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Injured elephant is rescued from mud pit by combined effort from farmers and officials

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An elephant was injured following an intense fight between two raging elephants as they battle it out for dominance and control over the territory.During the battle one of the elephant left leg was injured.Unable to walk further the elephant stuck in the mud.

The incident took place at Uhana in Ampara. Villagers informed the wild life officers in Ampara about the incident. Upon receiving the call the wild life officers arrived at Uhana and provided treatment to the elephant.After the initial treatments the wild life officials with the help of villager tried to lift the elephant.But due to the severeness of the injury the elephant couldn't stand on his legs.The elephant is currently getting treatment at the nearby camp.

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Wildlife Dept. lapses exposed by Auditor General

There have been lapses on the part of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) to protect wild elephants over the past years, the Auditor General has highlighted in a special audit.

The report prepared by the Auditor General last year observed that the number of elephants diminishing due to capture and killing is twice as much of the number of the increase.

“This decrease is a huge waste of wealth in our country.

If this decrease is not prevented immediately, under no circumstance the disappearance of Sri Lankan Elephant can be precluded,” a special report by the Auditor General on the ‘Performance of Wildlife Conservation Department’ said.

The audit had revealed that the racketeers who capture calf elephants illegally from forests had become active again due to the failure in expediting the implementation of the law in this connection. It added that the officers of the DWC had also been involved in this racket.

The report further revealed that garbage is disposed in 54 places in wildlife zones and over 300 wild elephants hang about in them. “A large number of wild elephants face various diseases and die due to intake of garbage at present and the veterinary surgeons said that various things such as non-degradable polythene, shopping bags, and plastic bottles can be seen in the stomach of elephants in post mortems carried out. Although there is an ability to avoid this condition by construction of electric–fences, the DWC had failed to carry out a proper procedure with the relevant Local Authorities,” the report stated.

The report also indicated that only one out of the 17 elephant passes identified in the country has been gazetted. “Only the elephant pass at Kawdulla –Minneriya had been published in the Gazette (in 2004). Elephant passes at ‘Koholankala, Unathuwewa, Wetahirakanda, Dahayyagala, Puwakpele, Ulhitiya, Hungamalaoya, Mahawewa, Rathnella, Digampothana, 5th Post, Nachchaduwa-Mahakandarawa, Nachchaduwa-Wilpattu, Sooriyapura, Madupara and Puluyankulama’ have not been gazetted. It is concluded that the failure in legally opening 16 identified elephant passes approved by the Cabinet of Ministers had resulted in the increase in the number of deaths of elephants and humans,” the report observed.

It pointed out that only 4 percent of the Wildlife Conservation Fund was spent on the improvement of enrichment of animals in parks. “Even though an income of Rs.1,857 million had been earned from 26 National Parks in 2016, the expenditure incurred for the habitat enrichment of the wild animals is Rs.71 million. It is a low percentage of 4 percent,” the report indicated.

The AG’s Department further highlighted that 536 vacancies of the staff existed in the DWC as at the end of 2017. “The DWC had to perform the duties of 33 vacancies through five officers. The process of decision making depended on five officers,” the report said.

According to the data of the DWC, 38 tuskers had died from 2012 to 2017. “Proper action had not been taken for the security of the Tusker ‘Dala Poottuwa’ who was blind due to gun shots. The moving pattern of that animal had not been identified.

These were an indirect support to the killing of the Tusker,” the report said. The audit report was also critical of the fact that the DWC was paying little attention on the removal of obstructions on elephant passes while spending million of Rupees on driving away elephants and the purchase of elephant crackers. “Even though an expenditure amounting to Rs.1,081 million had been incurred for the construction and maintenance of electric fences during 5 years, it was observed that equipment for electric fences valued at approximately Rs.22 million had remained idle and underutilized in the Office and Beat Offices,” the audit report revealed.

“The wildlife habitats had become polluted due to stirring up of dust as a result of entrance of a large number of vehicles at once to the Yala National Park and their fast running.

The average number of motor vehicles arriving was about 250 per day (within 10 months) and there are instances of this exceeding 700 during school vacations. As the Park is overcrowded during the hours from 6 am to 12 pm in the morning and from 2 pm to 6 pm in the evening, the traffic congestion of the Yala National Park is no better than the traffic congestion we experience in Colombo (Especially at the Palatupana Access),” the report stated.

The report also highlighted that a financial misappropriation of Rs.1.8 million had been committed at Udawalawa National Park (Rs 1.7million) and Minneriya National Park (Rs.168,020) in 2016 when issuing entry tickets.

“It is concluded that the elephant resource will become extinct in Sri Lanka within the ensuing years, if proper arrangements are l not made without delay to control the human elephant conflict,” the report observed.

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Two calf elephants rescued by Wildlife Officers

Anuradhapura Wildlife Veterinary Surgeon Chandana Jayasinghe said that they are under his
custody. He said that these two calves are healthy and still depending on milk for their sustenance.

The three month old calf elephant was found in Kekirawa, Ganewalpola area while it was
stranded in the jungle after its mother had died in a shooting incident. On information received from the villagers, the Wildlife Officers have come to the spot and taken the calf into their custody.

The other calf aged three and half months was found in a cultivation well and was rescued by
the Wildlife Officers.

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Individual killed by a wild elephant in Uva Kuda Oya

Police stated that the deceased is a 54 year old father of three who was a resident of the same area.

The victim has gone into the woods near his residence last evening and villagers have searched for him as he had not returned until this morning.

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Suspect arrested for possession of Ivory

Colombo (News 1st): An individual was arrested while in possession of fragments of elephant tusks and elephant pearls in Kaluwella, Akmeemana.

Police stated that they seized two crocodiles carved from ivory, an elephant pearl and 7 stones suspected to be gems during the raid. The raid was carried out based on a tip-off.

The suspect is a 34-year-old resident of Akuressa. He is due to be presented before the Galle Magistrate court today (Feb 7).

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Treaty members urge Japan to close loophole to ivory trade

Japan has come under more pressure to shut down its ivory market once and for all to combat elephant poaching.

A draft resolution under the Washington Convention targets Japan and European Union members, among others. It labeled Japan's ivory market as "one of the largest in the world" and a loophole for illegal exports to China, widely considered the world's largest ivory market.

The resolution urges all signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), also known as the Washington Convention, to immediately shut down domestic ivory markets.

“All domestic ivory markets, legal or illegal, contribute to poaching,” states the resolution, submitted by nine countries, including Kenya and Nigeria.

The draft was released by the CITES secretariat on Feb. 4 ahead of a meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the convention, to be held in Sri Lanka in May.

Under the CITES, international trade in elephant tusks and other ivory products has been prohibited, in principle, since 1990.

With regard to domestic ivory sales, a resolution urging countries to close markets that contribute to elephant poaching, as well as illegal ivory trading, was approved at the 2016 CITES conference.

Japan maintains that its domestic market is appropriately managed and does not encourage poaching or other illegal activities.

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Elephant deaths increasing at alarming rate

A total of 278 wild elephant deaths were reported in 2018 alone.

According to Environmentalist and Environmental Conservation Trust Director Sajeewa Chamikara, gunfire, the use ‘hakka patas’, and train accidents have been attributed to majority of the deaths.

He said due to unplanned development projects and due to the reduction of national forest reserves, the wild elephant population in Sri Lanka has come under serious threat.

The Department of Wildlife Conservation meanwhile continue to erect new electric fences in an attempt to mitigate elephant depredations in agricultural and plantation areas.

The Department has also taken steps to apprehend those responsible for the killing of wild elephants.

However Environmentalist Sajeewa Chamikara said additional steps must be taken to combat serious threats and increase the wild elephant population in Sri Lanka.

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Zim's fight against CITES' ivory ban continues

By Sinikiwe Marodza

The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species’ (CITES) ban on international ivory trade has done more harm than good within the SADC region, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has said.

Upon its enactment in 1989, the CITES ban on global ivory trading among member states was intended to reverse a sharp decline in the African elephant population, purportedly due to increased levels of poaching, but it has failed to serve its purpose.

As the world gets ready for the 18th CITES conference of parties (COP18) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from May 23 to June 3 this year, Zimbabwe has promised to continue fighting for the ban to be lifted so that it is allowed to sell its stockpiled ivory and use proceeds to develop poor communities.

Southern African countries such as Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have opposed the ban on trade in elephant products. They criticise ivory prohibition arguing that trade bans and stockpile destruction have a perverse effect of reducing supply, increasing prices and therefore incentivising further poaching.

These countries also argue that revenue from regulated ivory sales can be put to good use. The money can be used to finance the protection of elephants and their habitats and provide socio-economic benefits to communities who bear the costs of living with elephants.

In 2008, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe were allowed a "one-off" auctions to sell ivory from government-managed stockpiles to Japan and China under very strict conditions. Revenue from the sales was used to develop poor rural communities who live side-by-side with the elephants.

Zimparks public relations manager Tinashe Farawo said representatives of the authority will in May travel to Sri Lanka with the agenda to fight against the continued ivory trade ban.

“We have in the past years fought against the CITES ban, in fact the fight has never stopped and it will never stop until our wish is granted.

“It is time for all countries in the Southern African Development Community to join hands and support each other at the next CITES convention conference.

"There is no tangible evidence that trade bans have ever saved any species from extinction," Farawo said.

"It is imperative for our regional economy that SADC countries unite in defending our right to sustainably use our natural resources.

“The ban has not only affected Zimbabwe, but the whole of Southern Africa, and over the years we have been pushing for the ban to be lifted so that we use the proceeds of national stockpiles to fund conservation and support communities living near elephants ranges.

“Banning trade in ivory has not solved the problem of poaching, neither has it helped in protecting and controlling the population of elephants in Southern Africa. Rather, it has created a problem of overpopulation of elephants,” he said.

According to the World Wild Fund for Nature, Southern Africa has more than 700 000 elephants.

Instead of working to the people’s advantage, the elephants have turned into a liability as rural communities suffer from crop losses and in some cases lives have been lost in the human-animal conflicts.

“In Zimbabwe, we have more than doubled the number of our elephant carrying capacity.

“Under normal circumstances, our country should cater for only 40 000 elephants but now we have about 84 000 elephants, meaning that we have exceeded the carrying capacity.

“Elephants in Zimbabwe have in many cases destroyed people's crops and in some cases, attacked and killed people. Because of the over population, elephants are now destroying the vegetation which disadvantages the rest of the wildlife,” Farawo said.

Wildlife can be used to contribute towards building and developing African economies through trading of products such as ivory and elephant skins.

“Domestic trading of ivory is what we practice in Zimbabwe and it has done quite a number of things in terms of developing our nation.

“We have managed to build schools, hospitals, provide medicine and create employment for communities surrounded by elephants. Through an initiative called Campfire (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources), in Zimbabwe we have done so much with the proceeds from these animals.

“Now imagine if the trade was done at an international level, how much could we have achieved by now?

“We want our people to benefit from the wild animals, not the other way round,” Farawo added.

Zimbabwe has an estimated 1001 tonnes of ivory in reserve in its stockpile, mostly from animals who die of natural causes.

CITES is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals. It was created out of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The convention was opened for signature in 1973 and CITES entered into force on 1 July 1975.

Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species in the wild, and it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 35,000 species of animals and plants.

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Sri Lankan elephant in Islamabad Zoo continues to suffer

(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) A lonely elephant in the Islamabad Zoo known as Kaavan, a gift to former dictator General Zia

Haq from the Sri Lankan Government, is living in miserable conditions due to which he has developed serious psychological problems, Pakistan Today reported.

The Islamabad Zoo's isolated elephant has become the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music icon Cher, but unfortunately, no steps has been taken to improve the situation.

Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the 33-year-old Asian elephant is suffering from 'mental illness' due to which it could be seen bobbing his head repeatedly.

They said that Kaavan is in great distress since the death of his mate Saheli in 2012, who was gifted to Pakistan by Bangladesh back in 1990.

Additionally, no attention has been given to his diet and medication for years.

The sources said that various NGOs working on animals raised questions about Kavaan's solidarity confinement and limited shade and offered to shift him abroad to be released in a safe sanctuary.

Arriving as a one-year-old in 1985 from Sri Lanka, Kaavan was temporarily held in chains in 2002 due to his fierce tendencies and dislike of being captivated but was freed later following public outcry.

Sources further said that when the issue of his bad condition and isolation was raised by various organisations, the zoo management approached Sri Lanka for a new mate for Kaavan but no progress was made in this regard.

They said that Kavaan's the situation could only improve if he was shifted to a better place, preferably not in Pakistan.

Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan was really concerned about the Kaavan's condition and even tweeted, 'Kaavan the elephant has been treated cruelly. Unshackling him is not enough. He should be in a proper sanctuary, not the ill-equipped Islamabad zoo.'

Hence, it was expected that the incumbent government led by Imran Khan might take notice of the innocent elephant's miserable condition but the current political situation will certainly not allow him any priority.

It is pertinent to mention here that in July 2016, Standing Committee Chairman Senator Talha Mehmood and other members decided that Kavaan was better off in a sanctuary abroad.

Shortly afterwards, a sanctuary in Cambodia offered their services to fly the animal to the South East Asian country without any charge and help in its rehabilitation.

However, the then Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Federal Minister Tariq Fazl Chaudhry opposed the idea of shifting the elephant abroad.

A senior official of CADD said that NGOs wanted to shift Kaarvan to safe a sanctuary located in Myanmar; however how they could be trusted, as the elephant is worth millions of rupees.

The official said that the NGOs wanted to get him freed on the ground that animals should not be kept in cages; however, he opined that it is impossible to ban the practice of keeping animals in zoos and they should, in fact, be kept there as every person cannot see them in their natural habitat.

He claimed that the incumbent management was really concerned and steps were being taken to improve his diet and medication and considerable improvement would be witnessed in his condition soon.

About bobbing his head repeatedly, he said that he developed his habit long ago and denied that Kavaan is facing any major health problem.

On the other hand, head bobbing is a huge tell of distress in an elephant according to major scientific researches.

In response to a question about bringing a female mate to fill Kavaan's loneliness, the official said that both the elephants were gifts from friendly countries and elephants are worth millions of rupees so it is out of the question. (Colombo Gazette)

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