Leaving Sri Lanka was especially bitter-sweet this year as friends new and old enveloped us in elephant-sized love, and the seeds of projects planted last year began to take root. The complex challenges of HEC remain and there are no…
It may seem like a romantic notion , to have a tree hut off the edge of a national park or in the middle of a deep green rice field, but in Human Elephant Conflict areas, tree hut look-outs signify…
In a world where human population is growing and elephant habitat is shrinking, raising families (both elephant and human) is an uneasy dance between conflict and coexistence, especially when both sorts of families have been living in the same area…
We’re currently checking up on the families (of farmers and elephants) that live a little too close for comfort in central Sri Lanka, visiting each of the farms that were recipients of our 500 elephant-deterring/income-elevating citrus trees we planted last…
These are the conditions Ganga is currently forced to endure: chained up all alone in the back of an empty lot off a busy street, living on broken cement surrounded by rubbish. The government of Sri Lanka is deliberately delaying…