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Sri Lanka to conduct a countrywide elephant census next year
Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 09:45 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Nov 16, Colombo: Since the last elephant census in Sri Lanka was conducted in 2011, a new countrywide census is expected to be conducted next year, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation Mahinda Amaraweera said yesterday (15).
The minister said that a long-term program to reduce human-elephant conflict will be prepared and as one of the measures, a full census of elephants will be conducted.
The Minister said this at the first meeting of the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation held yesterday (15) for the third session of the Ninth Parliament.
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