Turning over a new leaf
Dec 10, 2017
3 minutes
Words and photography Kadambari Gladding
The “conflict of coexistence” – this phrase has come to encapsulate our tenuous relationship with wilderness and wildlife. In Sri Lanka, this conflict often proves fatal: each year, many humans and elephants die in the struggle over limited resources for human settlement, crop plantations and elephant habitat.
Today the island nation of Sri Lanka has an elephant population of around 3000–4000, nearly half of what it was 60 years ago. Sri Lankans have always revered the elephant, giving it pride of place
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