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Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage Celebrates Its 50th Year-by Amal Jayasinghe<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Amal Jayasinghe,\u00a0in The Island,\u00a0Sunday Edn<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0with\u00a0<\/strong>Pics by Ishara Kodikara and this title\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>\u201cSri Lanka\u2019s first elephant orphanage celebrates 50 years\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Sri Lanka\u2019s main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday February 16 with\u00a0a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world\u2019s first care home for destitute pachyderms<\/strong>. The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage lavished pineapples, bananas, melons and cucumbers on its residents to celebrate the anniversary of their home, which is a major tourist attraction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A few officials and tourists invited to the low-key celebration were served milk rice and traditional sweets while four generations of elephants born in captivity frolicked in the nearby Maha Oya river.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe first birth at this orphanage was in 1984, and since then, there have been a total of 76,\u201d said chief curator Sanjaya Ratnayake, as the elephants returned from their daily river bath.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a successful breeding programme, and today we have four generations of\u00a0elephants\u00a0here, with the youngest 18 months old and the oldest 70 years,\u201d he told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n

The orphanage recorded its first twin birth in August 2021 \u2014 a rarity among Asian\u00a0elephants\u00a0\u2014 and both calves are doing well.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Two years before the orphanage was formally established as a government institution in February 1975, five orphaned\u00a0elephants\u00a0were cared for at a smaller facility in the southern resort town of Bentota.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince the orphanage was set up at Pinnawala in 1975, in a coconut grove, the animals have had more space to roam, with good weather and plenty of food available in the surrounding area,\u201d Ratnayake said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The home requires 14,500 kilos of coconut and palm tree leaves, along with other foliage, to satisfy the\u00a0elephants\u2019 voracious appetites.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It also buys tonnes of fruit and milk for the younger calves, who are adored by the foreign and local visitors to the orphanage, located about 90 kilometres (56 miles) east of the capital Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also a major revenue generator for the state, earning millions of dollars a year in entrance fees. Visitors can watch the\u00a0elephants\u00a0from a distance or get up close and help scrub them during bath times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sri Lanka\u2019s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is a major tourist attraction<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The facility lacked running water and electricity at its inception but things improved as it gained international fame in subsequent years, said retired senior mahout K.G. Sumanabanda, 65.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was also fortunate to be present when we had the first birth in captivity,\u201d Sumanabanda told AFP, visiting the home for the jubilee celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his career spanning over three decades as a traditional\u00a0elephant\u00a0keeper, he trained more than 60 other mahouts and is still consulted by temples and individuals who own domesticated\u00a0elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, Sri Lankan authorities opened another elephant home south of the island to care for orphaned, abandoned or injured\u00a0elephants\u00a0and later return them back to the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Pinnawala is seen by many as a success, Sri Lanka is also facing a major human-elephant conflict in areas bordering traditional wildlife sanctuaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elephants return to Sri Lanka\u2019s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after taking their daily bath in a river<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Deputy Minister of Environment Anton Jayakody told AFP on Sunday that 450\u00a0elephants\u00a0and 150 people were killed in clashes in 2023,\u00a0continuing an alarming trend of fatalities in the human-elephant\u00a0conflict. The previous year saw 433 elephants and 145 people were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offence in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild\u00a0elephants\u00a0and where jumbos are considered a national treasure, partly due to their significance in Buddhist culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the massacre continues as desperate farmers face the brunt of\u00a0elephants\u00a0raiding their crops and destroying livelihoods.<\/span><\/p>\n

The minister was confident the new government could tackle the problem by preventing elephants from crossing into villages.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning to introduce multiple barriers\u2014these may include electric fences, trenches, or other deterrents\u2014to make it more difficult for wild\u00a0elephants\u00a0to stray into villages,\u201d Jayakody told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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