SRI LANKA VOX POP – ELEPHANTS HARMED BY CIVIL WAR
October 1st, 2008
By Keith Nuthall
Should society worry about the impacts of a civil war on wildlife when people are dying? This June, Sri Lanka wildlife officials treated elephants for gunshot injuries. Of the 74 recorded elephant deaths in north and northwestern Sri Lanka in 2007, 44 were killed by gunfire. There are around 4,000 wild elephants on the island.
Fathima Fazmina Farook, 19, student Muslim Ladies College, Bambalapitiya, Colombo district
People have encroached areas only meant for wildlife under the pretext of defence or offence. True, the guerillas inhabit jungle ...
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