Introduction: The Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS) is the first organization to be established outside Sri Lanka for the sole purpose of helping to conserve and preserve thedwindling biodiversity of Sri Lanka. SLWCS was established in 1995 by Ravi Corea, (FounderPresident), who ...
COLOMBO, April 23 (Xinhua) -- A wildlife officer was shot dead by a group of hunters inside the Galaoya National Park in Dambagalla, in central Sri Lanka on Thursday, the police said in a statement. The 25 year old wildlife officer was killed when a group of wildlife officers from the...
A huge conservation effort is being made; they’d had their horns cut off to protect them from poaching and there was a visible armed guard. Finally their numbers are going up. We were taken to a village to meet the local people. It was clear that the trip really supported the local...
Sri Lanka– This extraordinary island set in the Indian Ocean, off the south-eastern tip of India, has thousands of years of diverse culture. Still a predominantly Buddhist country, it also has strong Hindu, Christian and Muslim communities as well. Incredibly fertile and a great producer of e...
Research and management viewpoint: why compensating wildlife damage may be bad for conservation Journal of Wildlife Management (2005) A. Campos-Arceiz et al. The human–elephant conflict in sountheastern Sri Lanka: type of damage, seasonal patterns, and sexual differences in the raiding behavior of...
In what could be a major boost to technologically-empowered wildlife surveillance and research in India, plans are afoot to introduce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in 10 biodiversity-rich sites across India by January 2015. See it on Scoop.it, viaDrones, Quadcopters & UAV’s...
conservation science; (2) demonstrate the diverse way by which valuation is used to support wildlife protection in different contexts and regions; and (3) highlight novel deliberative approaches in valuation that could help bridge the increasing focus on human benefits of conservation with the value...
Amarasinghe TAA, Madawala BM, Karunarathna SSMD, Manolis C, de Silva A, Sommeriad R (2015) Human-crocodile conflict and conservation implications of Saltwater Crocodiles Crocodylus porosus (Reptilia: Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) in Sri Lanka. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(5):7111–7130 Article Goo...
The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking—The illegal wildlife trade is nestled between law enforcement, conservation/environmental protection, and the economy. This unique position means that there are multiple, often times competing, stakeholders determining the ways in which wildlife trafficking can be com...
Bats are natural reservoir hosts and sources of infection of several microorganisms, many of which cause severe human diseases. Because of contact between bats and other animals, including humans, the possibility exists for additional interspecies transm