Publications in Englisch
Ceylon Today
Online lecture by Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando on 30 March
27. March 2023 read article
Ada Derana
Uga Ulagalla launches its first-ever community-based fencing project helping mitigate
2. March 2023 read article
Business Café
Uga Ulagalla launches its first-ever community-based fencing project helping mitigate
human-elephant conflict
28. February 2023 read article
Business News
Uga Ulagalla launches its first-ever community-based fencing project helping mitigate
human-elephant conflict
28. January 2023 read article
Daily News
Human-elephant conflict mitigation – “Fruitful action needed to implement National
Action Plan”
26. January 2023 read article
Mongabay
Sri Lanka seeks lasting solution as human-elephant conflict takes record toll
26. January 2023 read article
Protect All Wildlife
Inside Sri Lanka’s deadly struggle to live peacefully with elephants
14. January 2023 read article
Daily News
Presidential Committee to ensure implementation of National Action Plan
1. November 2022 read article
The Island
President appoints committee to facilitate and oversee implementation of National Action Plan to mitigate human-elephant conflict
1. November 2022 read article
The Sunday Times
Electric shocks killing jumbos by the dozen
28. August 2022 read article
Ceylon Today
Minneriya elephant gathering fast dwindling
27. August 2022 read article
The Sunday Times
The bell tolls for the ‘Gathering’
21. August 2022 read article
Sunday Observer
Keeping human-elephant conflict at bay
13. February 2022 read article
Ceylon Today
A death trap in making
5. February 2022 read article
The Morning
It’s time to address the elephant in the room: Tuskers’ deaths due to garbage consumption
19. January 2022 read article
The Sunday Times
Trenches against wild elephants – Tried, tested and failed, say experts
12. December 2021 read article
Ceylon Today
Search for solutions continues...
30. October 2021 read article
Colombo Page
COPA presents its Second Report containing information on 16 investigations to parliament
21. October 2021 read article
The Morning
Horowpathana elephant holding ground
11. October 2021 read article
Daily Mirror
Yala tusker killing – Concerns raised over ivory poaching in Sri Lanka
5. October 2021 read article
Sunday Observer
Human-elephant conflict: The growing tragedy in Rajarata
26. September 2021 read article
ADAderana
Regulations under Fauna & Flora Protection Ordinance presented to Parliament
23. September 2021 read article
Al Jazeera
Anger as Sri Lanka court returns elephants to alleged traffickers
17. September 2021 read article
The Morning
Online database for captive elephants mooted
24. August 2021 read article
The Island
Of that monkey motion
2. August 2021 read article
The Sunday Times
Ditch electric fences – human-elephant deaths are rising – COPA recommends change in wildlife policy
25. July 2021 read article
Daily Mirror
Electric fence and trapping of elephants have failed: COPA report
23. July 2021 read article
Economy Next
Fence villages; keep forests open: MP calls for policy shift in Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict
20. July 2021 read article
Wall Street International Magazine
Elephants in Sri Lanka – Conflicts and conservation
9. July 2021 read article
The Island
Govt. ditches National Action Plan for mitigation of human-elephant conflict?
19. May 2021 read article
FT Daily
Is Sri Lanka culling its wild elephants by proxy?
18. May 2021 read article
Groundviews
Human-elephant conflict: Lessons not learnt
4. May 2021 read article
Ceylon Today
Ensnared
3. April 2021 read article
The Island
SL's short-sighted development policies have worsened human-elephant conflict
28. March 2021 read article
economynext
Jumbo justice?
27. March 2021 read article
The Morning
1,500 km-long elephant feces being built
21. March 2021 read article
The Island
Elephant deaths climb to 66 so far this year
17. March 2021 read article
The Sunday Times
No more chasing of non-problem elephants into Wilpattu: Experts
14. March 2021 read article
Ceylon Today
Starved calves of Yala
6. March 2021 read article
Ceylon Today
Human-elephant conflict resolution: COPA directs WFC to expedite process
25. February 2021 read article
Ceylon Today
Elephant Fence Task Force to be set up
17. February 2021 read article
Daily News
Solutions for human-elephant conflict recommended
8. February 2021 read article
The Morning
Crop damage by wild animals: Monkey sterilisation causes concern
5. February 2021 read article
The Morning
An elephant-sized mess in Horowpothana: Conjoining elephant conflict and elephant conservation
22. January 2021 read article
The Morning
Horowpothana Holding Ground report: Search for missing elephants in July
19. January 2021 read article
Daily Mirror
We need to convert elephants from economic liability to economic asset
1. January 2021 read article
Daily Mirror
The elephant is in the room and will not go away
31. December 2020 read article
Arab News
A jumbo problem: Sri Lanka sees world's highest elephant deaths
16. December 2020 read article
Daily News
SL ranks as highest elephant deaths reported country in the world - COPA
11. December 2020 read article
The Island
Rogue-elephant blamed for raids on homesteads captured
10. November 2020 read article
Ceylon Today
Taste of the waste
10. October 2020 read article
The Island
Action plan to tackle human-elephant conflict before president within two weeks
2. October 2020 read article
Daily Mirror
Human-elephant conflict in Horowpathana
30. September 2020 read article
Mongabay
Problem pachyderms? ‘Geofencing’ helps reduce Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict
26. July 2020 read article
Daily Mirror
Sri Lanka’s vanishing Elephant Corridors
23. June 2020 read article
The Sunday Morning
GPS tracking on elephants: A viable method to unearth wildlife secrets?
14. June 2020 read article
The Island
Globally Sri Lanka has highest annual elephant deaths
8. June 2020 read article
The Sunday Times
Snaring and digital kangaroo courts – experts cry foul
7. June 2020 read article
The Colombo Post
The Covid-19 panick attack
9. May 2020 read article
Mongabay
Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 lockdown sets wildlife free but raises poaching threat
16. April 2020 read article
The Economist
Of all Sri Lanka's conflicts, the one with elephants is the oldest
27.2.2020 read article
National Geographic
Symbols of survival
17.2.2020 read article
Daily FT
Constructive talks between conservation groups and Minister of Wildlife
24.1.2020 read article
The Sunday Times
Howls of protests but DWC allays fears
19.1.2020 read article
Daily Mirror
Experiments with elephants. How sustainable are elephant holding grounds?
16.1.2020 read article
Mongabay
Less force more kindness as Sri Lanka tries to defuse human-elephant conflict
31.10.2019 read article
New Scientist
Inside Sri Lanka's deadly struggle to live peacefully with elephants
16.10.2019 read article
Republic Next
Shambolic mitigation methods worsening human-elephant conflict
15.10.2019 read article
Mongabay
Seven elephants found dead as Sri Lanka's human-wildlife conflict escalates
10.10.2019 read article
The Sunday Morning
Seven elephant deaths probe delayed by strike
6.10.2019 read article
YouTube
Auckland Zoo about CCR work
3.10.2019 watch movie
Daily FT
Wildlife Dept. concludes post-mortem on mysterious jumbo deaths
30.9.2019 read article
The Island
Political interference standing in the way of elephant conservation - Expert
9.9.2019 read article
The Sunday Times
Elephant count method triggers debate on reliability
8.9.2019 read article
The Sunday Times
‘White elephant’ concentration camp for problem jumbos
25.8.2019 read article
Republic Next
Tikiri the elephant is back home but conservationists blast maltreatment
16.8.2019 read article
The Morning
Consuming garbage a cause of elephant deaths?
11.8.2019 read article
The Morning
Hakka pattas – A fast-increasing cause of elephant deaths in Sri Lanka
7. July 2019 read article
Daily Mirror
Polythene not healthy for pachyderms
4. July 2019 read article
Mongabay
Deadlier than guns: Explosive bait haunts Sri Lanka’s elephants
20. June 2019 read article
Daily FT
Sri Lanka’s wildlife conservation disrupted by political influences say conservationists
19. June 2019 read article
Sunday Times
Is human-elephant conflict ‘mitigation’ whacking elephants?
2. June 2019 read article
Daily News
Electric fences, the only effective solution
15. March 2019 read article
Sunday Observer – 3.3.2019
Tourism-elephant conflict: Are Lankan jumbos entertainers?
3. March 2019 read article
Sunday Times
Humans and elephants are living together
24. February 2019 read article
Pacific Standard
Researchers create first evidence-based map of Asian elephant populations
18. February 2019 read article
Mongabay
Sri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map
15. February 2019 read article
NewsFirst
Sri Lanka’s 1st data driven elephant distribution map
11. February 2010 read article
Blog from Cambridge Core
First countrywide survey of the endangered Asian elephant: Towards better
conservation and management in Sri Lanka
7. February 2019 read article
Daily News
Path to solve humane-elephant conflict
16. January 2019 read article
Daily News
Human negligence causes death by elephants, says expert
23. October 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Malnutrition kills more pachyderms
22. October 2018 read article
Sunday Times
Move to declare open season on wild boar despite warnings
7. October 2018 read article
Sunday Times
This land belongs to both people and elephants
9. September 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Mysterious jumbo deaths of Periyaru – Eighth elephant carcass found
5. September 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Five elephants found dead in marsh expert says more likely due to climate change
3. September 2018 read article
Sunday Times
The ills of relocating wild elephants
14. August 2018 read article
Daily Mirror
A jumbo conflict
10. August 2018 read article
Daily FT
Government to wage war on wild elephants
2. August 2018 read article
Ceylon Today – 2.8.2018
Human-jumbo conflict mitigation plan… Not a solution claim environmentalists and academia
2. August 2018 read article
Daily FT
Government to wage war on wild elephants
2. August 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Huma-Jumbo Conflict Mitigation Plan – Not a solution claim Environmentalists and Academia
2. August 2018 read article
Sunday Times
Mob-style leopard killing – Lanka’s day of shame
24. June 2018 read article
Huffington Post
Refugees Fleeing Violence In Myanmar Have A New Worry: Elephants
7. April 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Research Facts or Fiction?
4. March 2018 read article
Sunday Leader
Second phase of elephant conservation project to begin
23. February 2018 read article
Sunday Times
Elephant Conservation Project New plans for this year
18. February 2018 read article
Mongabay
New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years
31. January 2018 read article
The Guardian
Can Sri Lanka's elephants and humans learn to live together? – in pictures
30. January 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Voilà Breakthrough – Solution to Raging Conflict
21. January 2018 read article
Ceylon Today
Thani Dalaya’s escape Tusker not dangerous – Dr. Fernando
24. December 2017 read article
Sunday Times
Human wildlife conflict : Good fences make good neighbours
19. December 2017 read article
Daily Mirror
Authorities to ‘COLLAR’ Tuskers under threat
19. December 2017 read article
Sunday Times
Environmentalists call for fast and severe crackdown on killers of Dala-Poottuwa
10. December 2017 read article
Al Jazeera
Elephants on 'hostile territory' in Sri Lanka
4. September 2017 read article
Daily News
Twilight of the tuskers
14. August 2017 read article
Nation
Jumbo jolly! ‘It’s not unusual’ - experts
29. July 2017 read article
BBC
Elephant found swimming 16km out to sea
13. July 2017 watch movie
BBC
Elephants, Politics and Sri Lanka
11. Mai 2017 listen to broadcast
BBC
The day my child was killed by an elephant
11. Mai 2017 read article
Sunday Times
Environmentalists fire warning shots over “senseless” jumbo killing
9. April 2017 read article
Roar Media
Who Should Deal With The Human-Elephant Conflict?
9. April 2017 read article
The Island
Humans and Elephants to live in perfect harmony
12. March 2017 read article
Sunday Times
Deadly garbage dumps pose elephantine problems
5. March 2017 read article
Ceylon Today
Human - elephant conflict rears up again
26. February 2017 read article
Los Angeles Times
Sri Lankans who once embraced Chinese investment are now wary of Chinese domination
25. February 2017 read article
Deutsche Welle - Made for Minds
Sri Lanka tackles the elephant in the room
7. February 2017
Sunday Times
Let’s save our wild elephants
29. January 2017 read article
News Line TV1
Interview with Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando on HEC
22. September 2016 listen to interview
Sunday Times
Co-habitation between man and elephant the only answer to solve HEC
18. September 2016 read article
Sunday Times
Living next door to elephants
18. September 2016 read article
The Island
Heading for human-elephant co-existence
20. August 2016 read article
Quartier Echo
Elefanten im Songtsen House
30. June 2016
Aarunya Vacations
Knowledge upgrades
21. June 2016 read article
Daily News
Resolving the Human -Elephant conflict
20. June 2016 read article
Ceylon Today
DWLC, researchers responsible
28. November 2015 read article
The Island
Save our elephants!
30. October 2015 read article
Daily News
Empathy for elephants
29. October 2015 read article
WNPS Lecture
Safeguarding Starving Elephants
22. October 2015 listen to lecture
Sunday Times
The tuskers of Kalawewa now have a sanctuary
18. October 2015 read article
Sunday Times
New holding ground for rogue elephants needs careful watch
18. October 2015 read article
New Indian Express
Translocation of Elephants is not the solution
13. October 2015 read article
Echelon
Elephant Facebook
13. October 2015 read article
TeCake
Leopard and Elephant's conflict with humans on the rise, detailed study urgently needed
10. October 2015 read article
New Indian Express
Translocation Not a Solution to Man-animal Conflict, Say Karnataka Experts
10. October 2015 read article
Sunday Times
Jumbos at receiving end with no let up in conflict
20. September 2015 read article
Roar Media
Sri Lanka’s Starving Elephants
14. September 2015 read article
The Nation
'Letting go' for wrong reasons
27. June 2015 read article
Daily News
Human-Elephant Conflict - A science based solution
16. June 2015 read article
Sanctuary Asia
The starving elephants of Udawalawe
March 2015 read article
Al Jazeera
Sri Lankan ex-president's vanity airport project grounded by cash crunch
31. March 2015 read article
The Sunday Times
Rural lad with a childhood passion for animals turns researcher on jumbos
1. March 2015 read article
Wbur's The Wild Life
A dwarf elephant with outsized attitude
22.12.2014 read article - listen to interview
The Nation
We are not enemies
14. December 2014
The Sunday Times
Jumbos cry for a home on the range
9. November 2014 read article
The Star
Villagers keep a watchful eye over jumbos
6. October 2014 read article
Ceylon Today
Fencing wild life parks will kill 80% of Lanka's elephants
16. August 2014
Ceylon Today
Elephant experts predict miserable failure
28. July 2014
Mongabay.com
On track to 'go beyond the critical point': Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip
15. July 2014 read article
Mongabay.com
Epidemic of elephant calf kidnapping hits Sri Lanka, say conservationists
21. May 2014 read article
Ceylon Today
Methods to mitigate human-elephant conflict discussed
12. February 2014
Ceylon Today
Human vs elephant conflict – whitherto?
19. January 2014
The Sunday Leader
Elephant Killers Roam Free!
29. December 2013 read article
Mongabay.com
Little elephant is the first scientific record of dwarfism in the wild
19. December 2013 read article
Mongabay.com
Asian elephants depend on shifting cultivation during the dry season
16. December 2013 read article
Mongabay.com
Sri Lankan elephant amnesty will lead to poaching, warn conservationists
3. December 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
Look at that little fella!
24. November 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
Leave Gemunu alone, plead elephant experts
8. September 2013 read article
The Nation
Shocked into submission, curse of Hakka Patas
21. July 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
Wild elephants, people and an electric fence
23. June 2013 read article
The Sunday Time
Jumbos not bothered about Mattala
24. March 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
Hakka pataas set to become elephant killer no. 1
13. February 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
Feeding wild elephants is high-risk entertainment
13. January 2013 read article
The Sunday Times
The case for conserving elephant landscapes
23. December 2012 read article
Asian Scientist
Relocation Fails To Stop Elephant-Human Conflict
21. December 2012 read article
The Sunday Times
Changing locations fail to mitigate man-beast conflict, says landmark study
9. December 2012 read article
Science
Relocating elephants backfires
7. December 2012 read article
The Sunday Leader
Double fencing Uda Walawe elephants!
7. October 2012
The Nation
Elephantine errors
4. December 2011 read article
The Australian
The gathering of giants
19. November 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Jumbos hit by trains: When will these tragedies end?
13. November 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Galgamuwa tusker in sanctuary for now
6. November 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
USAID pulls out of electric fence project
30. October 2011 read article
Daily News
Born free and wild
28. October 2011 read article
Daily Mirror
Driving them out will worsen the human-jumbo conflict
26. October 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Snares are latest weapon in relentless man-beast conflict
23. October 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Conflict over jumbo census
14. August 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Villagers block junction demanding solution to human-elephant conflict
31. July 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Counting elephants-The other side of the coin
24. July 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
No move to drive jumbos from Hambantota: Official
24. July 2011 read article
The Sunday Leader
Lost aid to be salvaged
17. July 2011
The Sunday Times
Gentle giants and babes at the mercy of roaring ‘yakada yakas’
26. June 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
‘Gathering’ under threat?
15. May 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Conservationists want President’s help to save WB ecosystems project
8. May 2011 read article
The Sunday Times
Don’t stump the ‘Stumpies’ of Hambantota
27. February 2011 read article
The Sunday Leader
The jumbo plan
9. January 2011 read article
Daily Mirror
Save our elephants!
16. Nov. 2010 read article
Daily Mirror
Twist of fate
26. October 2010 read article
Daily Mirror
Rogue collared at last
19. October 2010
The Sunday Times
The lone battle of a four legged brigadier
6. June 2010 read article
Daily Mirror
Wild jumbos cause extensive damage
28. April 2010
The Sunday Leader
Experts debate jumbo problem
18. October 2009
Daily Mirror
Kana Kota captured
29. June 2009
The Sunday Times
Top award for doc of the wilds
17. May 2009 read article
The Sunday Times
Why do elephants come back home?
5. April 2009 read article
WWF News Centre
Humans and elephants on collision course in South Asia
17. Nov. 2008
Sunday Observer
Elephantine misconceptions. From human-elephant conflict to human-elephant coexistence
2. Nov. 2008 read article
The Sunday Times
Don’t make national parks ghettos for our elephants
5. August 2007 read article
Daily Mirror
Wildlife Dept. and the plight of elephants
25. May 2007
Daily Mirror
An end to the killing?
11. May 2007
Daily Mirror
Ignored Policy and Imprisoned Elephants
19. April 2007
Daily News
Major plan under way to restore Lanka's natural ecosystems
3. March 2005 read article
Daily News
Chena and elephants; age-old co-existence
1. Nov. 2004 read article
Daily News
Homing in on elephant ranging patterns
12. Oct. 2004 read article
Daily News
White elephants and blue moons
12. August 2004, Vol. 88, No. 192
The Sunday Times
BBC spotlight on Lankan wildlife
8. August 2004, Vol. 39, No. 10, Page 8
The Sunday Times
Not yet another 'white elephant'
8. August 2004, Vol. 39, No. 10, Page 13
The New York Times
An elephant that stands out in a crowd
3. August 2004, Vol. 153, No. 52,930
The Washington Post
Biologist locate white elephant
2. August 2004, Vol. 122, No. 241
The Sunday Times
Bringing a white to light
1. August 2004, Vol. 39, No. 9, Page 12
Sunday Observer
White elephant in Yala
25. July 2004 $1065$
Daily Mirror
Rare white elephant in Yala: Wildlife experts thrilled
24. July 2004, Vol. 6, No. 31
The Island
White elephant in Yala
24. July 2004, Vol. 24, No. 175