Raja, an elephant in Sri Lanka has gained popularity online after it was discovered that he only let vehicles pass if they ...

As students in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad protested the felling of a forested area for development, footage of a ...

Raja, is a famous Sri Lankan elephant that is notoriously known as the elephant that collect road tax or toll from vehicles passing by busy roads.

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 ...

COLOMBO — More than a decade ago, Thushari, a young female elephant, born wild and free, would roam the landscapes of ...

The Sri Lankan elephant (whose scientific name is the particularly telling ‘Elephas maximus maximus’) can reach over 5,000 kg in weight and stand over 10 feet tall. Controlling such an enormous animal ...

We cycle atop levees holding back man-made lakes and alongside tall, electrified elephant-proof fences. We wheel through villages, gently ascending into the high country to eventually arrive at Kandy ...

The Thai government has announced that the elephant named Muthu Raja, which was taken to Thailand while under the care of the ...

He held two successful exhibitions of his photography in 2000 and 2004- Sri Lanka Wild but when it came to compiling a book, he has chosen to dedicate it to the elephant. “We need to value what we are ...

The University Sri Lanka Elephant Conservation Consortium is seeking applications for our 8-week summer research program in Sri Lanka in summer 2024. The project focuses on understanding the causes of ...

We arrived in Sri Lanka not long before midnight, and immediately jumped into a taxi for the four-hour drive to our location. We only made one stop along the way (for ice cream-filled coconuts ...