To – APPEACE – FOREIGN TOURISTS & locals… feeding Wild | Stray Elephants is —Illegal

Sri Lanka wildlife conservation department (DWLC) has stressed that…

“feeding of wild and stray elephants that roams across rural road ways across Sri Lanka, particularly designated regions where large populations of wild elephants exist, if not migrates across will not be, neither allowed nor permitted under both wildlife and forest Protection Act”.

Wildlife conservation department further stressed that such practices have wild & roaming elephant behavior being conditionalized as to — Acquire their food through this human intervention if not through this interaction.

For wildlife enthusiasts to outsiders, this may appear adventures, but for the local people residing on the regions were these roaming elephants are travelling across, it puts their lives as well as their livelihoods at great danger as, elephants had developed a habit of approaching humans to attain food to feed themselves.

It is also notable that some foreign tour guide operators, has been purposefully employing this tactic to appease if not to increase the appeal of the wild life tourism in a kind of an approach as up-close, first-hand experience.

Sri Lanka wildlife conservation department stresses such behavior and practices must seized to being practiced by all parties, stating that “tourists themselves shouldn’t be asking for such favors from their tour operators under any circumstances“, and warned everyone…

…“if caught first handedly, will be prosecuted under wildlife conservation act for violating rules, regulations and guidelines”.