Department of Wildlife Conservation Archives

January 4, 2021

Rohan Wijesinha In 2006, the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) drove approximately 260 elephants into the Lunugamvehera National Park to enable development to take place on the Left Bank of the Walawe River. The drive was allegedly to help reduce human – elephant conflict (HEC). The overwhelming majority of elephants who are involved in HEC […]

December 14, 2020

Rohan Wijesinha On the 8th of December 2020, the National Parks of Sri Lanka were closed to the public as the employees of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) took industrial action to protest the unjust public castigation, by a State Minister, of two of its officers for doing nothing more than try and uphold […]

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