{"id":101096,"date":"2022-10-04T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=101096"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:39:47","slug":"off-the-beaten-track-for-leopard-or-dragonfly-by-yomal-senerath-yapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/off-the-beaten-track-for-leopard-or-dragonfly-by-yomal-senerath-yapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the beaten track for leopard or dragonfly-By Yomal Senerath-Yapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Off the beaten track for leopard or dragonfly-<span style=\"color: #800080;\">By Yomal Senerath-Yapa<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101097\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/An-elephant-goes-for-the-garbage-dump-at-Minneriya-e1664904898948.jpg\" alt=\"An elephant goes for the garbage dump at Minneriya\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/221002\/plus\/off-the-beaten-track-for-leopard-or-dragonfly-497083.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundaytimes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Growing up, Riaz Cader loved nothing better than an escape into the remote rural wilderness; whether it be the dry zone wildlife bungalows of Mahasilawa or Thalgasmankade in Yala with leopard and bear at a waterhole; the fecund darkness of a rain forest with endemic frog and loris and lizard; or to dream of the dry Indian scrub where the tiger hunts and dhole calls out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Today at 37, Riaz is content having carved out of his passion for wildlife a career as a nature tourism professional, with his own company, Natural World Explorer, curating special safaris with many itineraries focusing diversely on butterflies, birds, wild cats and even dragonflies; while also being a local \u2018ground handler\u2019 for big documentaries by the big names including National Geographic, BBC and Animal Planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Always \u2018grabbing at any excuse\u2019 to escape to the wild, Riaz has accumulated a massive portfolio of wildlife snaps that would be the envy of any shutterbug.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497085\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497085\" title=\"Colombo-2Y0A0817-May-12,-2020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/221002\/uploads\/Colombo-2Y0A0817-May-12-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Taking a stand: A shikra defends its prey from persistent crows in the heart of the city and right a selection of Riaz\u2019s wildlife shots<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Educated at Royal College, then the Elizabeth Moir School, when he watched TV it was mostly documentaries as an escape chute into wild places, he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">After completing his Bachelor of Commerce at the Melbourne University he was crammed into an office Down Under till he gave it up and took a serendipitous flight home to Sri Lanka, then just finding its feet after the war. While waiting to secure a position in the financial sector he signed up for an internship at Jetwing Eco Holidays, training under Gehan de Silva Wijeratne and what was meant to be a short tenure, became full time work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">After setting up on his own with Natural World Explorer with wife Nidaal, Riaz has had moments that probably even Jane Goodall (or a BBC or Discovery film crew) would envy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497086\" title=\"Horton-Plains-_MG_8351-May-25,-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/221002\/uploads\/Horton-Plains-_MG_8351-May-25-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"337\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A Rhino-horned lizard in Horton Plains and on our Magazine cover, flamingos in Mannar<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Working for big documentaries across the length and breadth of the island involves staying on location in the wild for weeks and among some of the most epic experiences he says was seeing \u2018super pods\u2019 of sperm whales\u2013giant conglomerates (going up incredibly to 80 individuals) frolicking in the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There was also capturing off Mirissa pics of a couple of killer whales up close, and getting \u2018honeymoon shots\u2019 of two romancing leopards on the Moderagala Rock in Yala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">While always avid for the majestic leopard or the fierce bear the lesser felines have not been ignored. Some intimate shots of a brood of fishing cats in the Thalangama wetlands he says, goes to show \u201cyou don\u2019t always have to go far or spend big to take photographs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Recently he had a rendezvous with a portly saltwater crocodile in a canal in Colombo and took a curious snap of a smart Shikra defending its substantial kill of a rat from some sleek crows \u2013 in his own driveway in Kollupitiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497087\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497087\" title=\"_DSC3304-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/221002\/uploads\/DSC3304-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"241\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Riaz Cader<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">With ground handling for documentaries it is not all glamour and sightings of rare animal behaviour every day; it is \u201ca lot of hours in the field, a lot of fact finding, a lot of fine tuning, running along from location to location, making contingency backup plans and so on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-497088\" title=\"Mannar-2Y0A2708_February-02,-2022-(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/221002\/uploads\/Mannar-2Y0A2708_February-02-2022-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" \/>While till recently they mostly worked with tourists from overseas and film crews, now they are preparing to cater to Lankans looking for wildlife holidays within our shores as well as in India and Africa with their expertise. While the dry zone figures large in their itineraries, they embrace all terrains and any traveller with Natural World Explorer gets the full experience down to spotting rare butterflies and minuscule dragonflies- \u201ca little different to what you would normally see,\u201d says Riaz. They take pride in their teams including seasoned naturalists, jeep drivers and trackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">While affirming there can be no such thing as a \u2018perfect\u2019 snapshot, Riaz says a good picture is an alchemy which involves practice and years of rehearsing for the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">While also a sports fan, Riaz remains glad his \u2018main hobby\u2019- wildlife photography \u2013\u00a0 makes an impact on those people otherwise not sensitive to nature adding that he hopes his nature images can slowly bring these people into the fold of conservationists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the beaten track for leopard or dragonfly-By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Source:Sundaytimes Growing up, Riaz Cader loved nothing better than an escape into the remote rural wilderness; whether it be the dry zone wildlife bungalows of Mahasilawa or Thalgasmankade in Yala with leopard and bear at a waterhole; 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