Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms.

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in the Kegalle district, which is a main tourist attraction at the entrance to the hill country, and managed by the Department of Zoological Gardens celebrated its ...

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage lavished pineapples ... Twenty years ago, Sri Lankan authorities opened another elephant home south of the island to care for orphaned, abandoned or injured ...

Two weeks ago, the government announced that 1,195 people and 3,484 animals had been killed in a decade due to the worsening ...

Elephants return to Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after taking their daily bath in a river Sri Lanka is also facing a major human-elephant conflict in areas bordering traditional ...

PINNAWALA, Sri Lanka:Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 ...