14 December,2020 08:37 AM IST | Colombo | Agencies
A mahout rides an elephant in Piliyandala on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Sri Lanka has ranked number two globally after India where highest number of human deaths were reported due to the human-elephant conflict, according to Daily News.
The country's Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) had ordered a special audit into the human-elephant conflict by renowned elephant expert Dr Prithviraj Fernando, the head of the Centre for Conservation and Research.
COPE Chairman Tissa Vitarana said in the past 12 months, the 407 elephants were killed in conflict with humans in Sri Lanka as against the previous annual average of 272. The number of people killed also increased from an average of 85 to 122 per year in the country.
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