Sunday, September 25, 2011

Planters and elephants

By Jayantha Jayewardene

Planters in Sri Lanka have had a long association with wild elephants. This association started with the pioneer planters who moved to the upcountry areas to open up land for the cultivation of coffee and cinchona. Unfortunately those early associations were always confrontational and detrimental to the elephant. The jungles that were inhabited by the elephants were cleared at a rapid rate to be replaced by coffee and cinchona plants. The elephants that had lived in those jungles were shot indiscriminately if they got in the way of those clearing the jungles.

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