Sri Lanka seeks peace with pachyderms as human-elephant conflicts escalate

Mongabay
Jul 10, 2021, 2:18 am217 pts
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — The first time Mahinda Samarawickrama, a farmer in Hambantota district, southern Sri Lanka, was attacked by an elephant, he’d gone down to the village reservoir at dawn to bathe. The animal emerged suddenly from the darkness, grabbing him by the hip and flinging him into a thicket of…

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