Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elephant browses at a dump in Sri Lanka’s eastern district of Ampara (AFP via Getty Images) Each week the picture editors at ...

It took a tweet from Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio to bring the issue of trash-foraging elephants in Sri Lanka to global attention. But local conservationists have long been flagging the ...

A wild elephant eats garbage containing plastic waste at a dump in Sri Lanka's eastern district of Ampara. Sri Lanka is set to launch a nation-wide clean up of plastic waste ahead of new laws banning ...

Dumping of waste along the Marudhamalai foothills continues to pose a threat to elephants as they serve as a key transit path, which enables the pachyderms to move between Boluvampatti Valley and ...

The Forest department has issued a notice to the Chinnakanal panchayat, near Munnar, after finding that the panchayat-owned dump yard in the wild elephant habitat posed a threat to wild animals in the ...

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