Elephants at wild locations in Sri Lanka
| Region: | Sri Lanka is in this database included in asia | Other regions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wild elephants: | Sri Lanka has about 5879 (min. 5879, max. 5879) wild elephants. Source:Fernando et al. (2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location holdings: | 15 wild locations has kept 107 elephants in Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elephants in wild locations | 96 (32,46) living | 11 (9,2) dead | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sri Lanka is an island with a land area of approximately 62,000 km2 situated in the Indian Ocean, 35 km from the southern end of the Indian Peninsula. Human-elephant conflict2019: In 2019 alone, 407 elephants and 122 humans were killed due to the country’s worsening HEC. Man-elephant conflicts are the major cause for the elephant killings whilst a number of elephants were run over by trains accidentally. In some other cases elephants were killed as they fell in man-made structures like farming wells. Captive elephants1946: In 1946 Sri Lanka was said to have 736 elephants in captivity (Santiapillai and de Silva, 1994) 1955: there were said to still be 670 elephants (Deraniyagala, 1955). 1967: census conducted by the University of Peradeniya and the Smithsonian Elephant Research Programme showed 532 elephants, with two owned by government and the remaining 530 in private hands (Jayasinghe and Jainudeen, 1970). In the early 1980s a census conducted by the DWLC listed 344 elephants, including 29 tuskers and 154 mukhnas (Anon., 1982d); but A.B. Fernando, who handed the mimeographed single page to the author, estimated that about 10% were uncounted, the addition of which would give about 380 elephants (A.B. Fernando, 1988). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name | Elephant collection | Type | Place | District | Province | State | Region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anuradhapura forest Kept totally 12 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 9 births | 12 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | (map) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hambantota Wild Elephant Management Reserve Kept totally 5 elephants | , 4 present (1,3) | 0 births | 1 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Hambantota | Southern Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kalawewa National Park Kept totally 1 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 0 births | 0 relocated | 1 deaths | wild | Anuradhapura (map) | Anuradhapura District | North Central Province | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurunegala District Kept totally 1 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 0 births | 0 relocated | 1 deaths | wild | Kurunegala | North Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurunegala forest Kept totally 5 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 1 births | 5 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Kurunegala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lahugala Elephant Sanctuary Kept totally 1 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 0 births | 1 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Polonnaruwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lunugamvehera National park Kept totally 4 elephants | , 4 present (3,1) | 0 births | 0 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Lunugamvehera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maduru Oya National Park Kept totally 6 elephants | , 4 present (1,1) | 1 births | 2 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Polonnaruwa | Uva Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minneriya national park Kept totally 3 elephants | , 3 present (0,1) | 3 births | 0 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Polonnaruwa (map) | North Central Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nawagaththegama jungle Kept totally 1 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 1 births | 1 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | Puttalam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sinharaja Forest Reserve Kept totally 2 elephants | , 2 present (2,0) | 0 births | 0 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | (map) | Southern Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sri Lanka unspecified location Kept totally 19 elephants | , 0 present (0,0) | 23 births | 16 relocated | 3 deaths | wild | (map) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Uda Walawe Nationalpark Kept totally 71 elephants | , 66 present (20,32) | 6 births | 4 relocated | 1 deaths | wild | Uda Walawe National Park (map) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wilpattu Nationalpark Kept totally 1 elephants | , 1 present (0,1) | 0 births | 0 relocated | 0 deaths | wild | (map) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yala Ruhunu National Park Kept totally 19 elephants | , 12 present (5,7) | 10 births | 2 relocated | 5 deaths | wild | Hambantota (map) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This document was updated: 2020-10-03 08:17:45