An awareness session on safety measures to be taken to live freely in the country without human-elephant conflict was organized by Help Sri Lanka at Horavappottanai Mandakani Mandapam, Anuradhapuram.
Human-elephant conflict was clearly discussed in the above workshop in which school students, teachers and parents participated.
The problem has started due to the continuous destruction of the elephant’s habitat by humans, due to plantations, modern urbanization, construction of factories, destruction of natural water bodies, elephants that roamed freely in the forest enter residential areas in search of food and water and damage human property and save precious human lives. The workshop was very successful and it is commendable to open doors to continue working with the Central Environment Authority on such a project. HELP Sri Lanka will continue to work directly with grassroots organizations in the village in the future to develop multiple ways to control elephant conflict.
We mainly focus on elephant fences to save human lives. We hope this will encourage farmers to get trained in fencing and its maintenance, said University Senior Lecturer Sudesh Ruvinda, who was the keynote speaker on elephant-human conflict management at the event.
Here is how humans live safely with elephants. Environment Commissioner, Director of Environment Authority, Principals also gave meaningful speeches.
At the end of the event, the green medal winners were felicitated in a function organized by the Environment Authority.
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(Malikaikadu Group Correspondent)
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