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In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts
Monkeys were expected to be among the chief culprits identified as Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide survey on March 15 of ...
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20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
Located on Sri Lanka’s southeast coast, Yala National Park was one of the worst hit areas of the country, with waves surging over a kilometre from the shore and reshaping the landscape forever.
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Monkey business: Sri Lanka to count crop-raiding nuisance wildlife
In 2023, the then agricultural minister proposed exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists. Sri Lanka ...
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In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts
In The Natural History of Ceylon (1861), British naturalist James Emerson Tennent documented an instance of a white monkey being ... 2015 in Yala National Park in Sri Lanka’s south.