A video of a Sri Lankan safari guide's quick thinking has gone viral. The guide averted a potentially dangerous encounter ...

Throughout my time in Sri Lanka, I learnt from our local guide, Sampath, an immense amount about the cultural importance of elephants, but being able to experience how that cultural importance ...

Sri Lanka has a new answer to toll booths -- a tax-collecting elephant. Instead of searching the car for some spare change, you must offer up a tasty snack before Raja allows you to pass.

Foto: Steffen Kugler/dpa In Sri Lanka, dozens of people die each year because of elephants. And more elephants die because of humans. The main reason is that humans increasingly invade the habitat ...

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago arrived back in its birth country on Sunday, following a diplomatic spat over the animal’s alleged mistreatment. Thai authorities had gifted ...

Sumith Pilapitiya, a prominent wildlife research enthusiast, said this is the first time Sri Lanka has recorded the birth of twin elephant calves. He said the authorities were taking all measures ...