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• jungles, is now confined to pockets of relatively undisturbed forest. It seems that with encroachment and the general disturbance of our forests, the sloth bear is among the first animals to disappear.)
• Interesting Wildlife of Sri Lanka ( Though Sri Lanka is very small in land area, the great diversity in habitats harbors are a rich and diverse fauna and flora, with many species endemic to the island.) !
• Wildlife photography - treasure trove of Wildlife captured
• Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society)
• Sri Lanka's venomous snakes and their habitat (Island Feature by Ariyadasa Ratnasinghe)
• Sri Lankan Lizards: kabaragoyas & Thalagoyas (Kabaragoyas and thalagoyas are common in Ceylon and are seldom found anywhere else in the world. The kabaragoya is large, the size of an average crocodile, and the thalagoya smaller - a cross between an iguana and a giant lizard..)
• Sri Lanka: the New Global Amphibian Hotspot ( Sri Lanka is home to more than 250 species of frogs, a ‘density’ of 3.7 species per 1,000 sq. km. This puts the island well ahead of the former record holder, Costa Rica, which has 2.8 species per sq. km. This represents about 7 per cent of the world’s known frog species )
• Reptiles & amphibians list for Sri Lanka ( by The American Museum of Natural History, US )
• Sri Lanka’s amphibian diversity ( By Rohan Pethiyagoda & Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi - Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka)
• Ulpotha - A VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE
• The Pearl of the Indian Ocean - National Geographic - January 1997

Sri Lankan Elephants

• Pinnawela: Sri Lanka's Orphanage for jungle jumbos (There are now 53 residents at the Pinnawela orphanage, which opened its doors on February 17, 1975, with only six beasts.)
• Pinnawela: Sri Lanka's Orphanage for jungle jumbos (There are now 53 residents at the Pinnawela orphanage, which opened its doors on February 17, 1975, with only six beasts.)
• Minneriya elephants (Geographically, Habarana is the most convenient and central location for those who want to visit the archaeological sites in Anuradhapura, Polonnnaruwa, Dambulla and Sigiriya.)
• Elephant lore - in myth, legend, religion and war (Island Feature by Ariyadasa Ratnasinghe )
• ELEPHANT MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION IN SRI LANKA: FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ( The participants recognised the need to focus our attention and action on some key priority issues at the local level to enhance the long term survival of the elephant in Sri Lanka )
• Human Elephant Conflict - Problems and Solutions ( Experts believe that at the turn of the 19th Century there were 20,000 elephants in Sri Lanka. The present population is less than 3,500 elephants. In 1998 alone over 350 elephants were killed in Sri Lanka. At this present rate of mortality the prognosis for the Sri Lankan elephant is indeed bleak. - Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society )
• Non-consumptive use of elephants in Sri Lanka (The human-elephant conflict appears to have replaced poaching as a major cause of elephant mortality in Sri Lanka. Elephant populations in the wild have been reduced substantially in the past 50 years, during which between 1500 - 3000 elephants may have been killed in the wild. )
• The elephant transit Home (Set up in 1995 as a pilot project by the Department of Wildlife Conservation to look after the abandoned baby elephants till they are able to take care of themselves.)
• 'Ath Athuru Sevana': The elephant transit Home (Twenty-nine baby elephants, all determined to be the first in the feeding line, 'trumpeting for their breakfast', were a sight that brought instant 'ahhhs' to the lips of the few lucky humans who were permitted to be present.)

Sri Lankan Leopards "Of the four species of wild cats fou