Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera explains that China intended to disperse the monkeys between 1,000 zoos across the country, taking it as a solution to the animals destroying crops.
COLOMBO On average one elephant has died each day in Sri Lanka in the first three months of this year, with nearly half of those deaths due to human causes. This escalation of the perennial problem of human-elephant conflict on the island has prompted calls for urgent solutions to save this endangered and iconic […]
International, MNA | Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is considering exporting up to 100,000 endangered monkeys to China, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, raising concerns among conservationists.
Sri Lanka authorities are considering filing claim for compensation over the X-Press Pearl marine disaster in a Singapore court an official said, while an environmental lawyer said a domestic action also had advantages.
Battling with a mammoth debt, Sri Lanka's Agriculture Minister last week announced a plan to export 1,00,000 monkeys to China, the country's biggest bilateral lender.