Sri Lanka Unesco - Kandy Perahera in "World Heritage" ?

18/07/2022

13/07/2022

25/03/2022

LIARS !!!!!

15/02/2022

20/01/2022

🙏🌹🐘 PLEASE COME AND JOIN US — VIGIL FOR ELEPHANTS — THIS SATURDAY IN SRI-LANKA!! 🌹🐘

DAY: SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022
TIME: 4pm-5:30pm SLST
LOCATION: Diyatha Open air theatre, Parliament road, Rajagiriya; next to the UCL campus.
Please bring your loved ones and everybody who cares and loves Elephants and wants to stop the violence against them.

❗LET US REPAIR THE BREACH TOGETHER!

THIS SPECIAL EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY RARE - Rally For Animal Rights & Environment AND SPONSORED BY Elephantea WITH THE SUPPORT OF Global March for Elephants and Rhinos.

👉Find all the information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/617464989482531

09/01/2022

29/11/2021

ONE MORE SCANDAL IN SRI LANKA

‼️ "ENJOY THE FONDLING OF TWIN BABY ELEPHANTS" ‼️
The cruelty and backward thinking of PINNAWALA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE, SriLanka on full display YET AGAIN!!!!
👉 No elephant should be subjected to mauling by the general public and certainly no youngster!
👉This dreadful activity will cause the whole family untold stress
❌ Why must Pinnawala persist with their unethical and outdated practices?
❌ When will PINNAWALA put elephant welfare rather than elephant exploitation at the top of their priorities?
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21/11/2021

‼ INJURED MALE ELEPHANT AND ILLEGAL BABY ELEPHANT ‼
Another elephant with a serious leg injury still being used for perahera’s! This is Bandara an elephant in the custody of notorious rogue and suspected elephant smuggler Kamal Kithsiri. Not only is Bandara suffering with a leg injury he is also made to wear an illegal ‘spiked hobble’ (chain of thorns) on his right leg
The young elephant trudging along behind is Panchali one of the 14 illegally captured elephants returned to suspects.
👉 Time and time again we see footage and hear reports of elephants in the custody of Kamal Kithsiri being beaten and forced to do hard labour and now he has another young victim to abuse in Panchali 💔
🇱🇰 What a country Sri Lanka is, we reward smugglers, the abuse of animals, even those it’s claimed form part of our culture and heritage goes unnoticed and unpunished and racketeers and animal abusers are invited by temples to take roles in religious processions!! What a mockery of Buddhism! What a joke we have become!

19/10/2021

ELEPHANT SAMA STABBED BY KNIFE
⚠⚠⚠ ACTION ⚠⚠⚠
Please ask The Wildlife department and the Zoo Department to take immediate action for Sama as is their duty on the following pages
👉 Wildlife Minister - https://www.facebook.com/WDissanayakeSLPP/
👉 Ministry - https://www.facebook.com/ministryofwildlifeandforestconservation/
👉 Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage - https://www.facebook.com/Pinnawala-Elephant-Orphanage-908129535933399

Sources tell us that Sama’s keeper Uduwe Dhammaloka thero is aware of the chilling video showing Sama being abused and terrorised by her mahout and rather than taking action he has ensured the mahout he will not fire him.
Once more the lack of care or concern afforded to these elephants is laid bare!
Clearly Sama is regularly subjected to violence and as a result is both stressed and full of fear. At the Kandy perahera 2021 she exhibited obvious distress and was seen to be stereotyping prolifically, on one of the days she was removed from the parade.
‼ As Sama was a “gift” to the thero from Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, The Zoo Department retain ultimate responsibility for Sama’s care and wellbeing.
The department must take action and show that they take that responsibility seriously. Failure to act will send a clear message that the abuse of elephants is acceptable in Sri Lanka.

23/09/2021

SRI LANKA : Daily routine .....CRUELTY !

19/09/2021

❗ THE UGLY ARM OF CORRUPTION IS THREATENING THE RIGHTS OF ELEPHANTS IN SRI-LANKA.❗

🙏 We believe:
"Elephants and people have equal rights to this island of their birth." — Rukshan Jayawardena.

👉 But "equality for elephants" is threatened by the recent implementation and enforcement of misleading and disingenuous regulations by the government in Sri Lanka, ones that will cement the continuity of the captive elephant industry in perpetuity.

“The Sri Lankan government’s recently gazetted regulations [are] a study in moral incoherence,” Rosemary Alles, president and co-founder, Global March for Elephants and Rhinos.
More here: https://www.theanimalreader.com/2021/08/28/new-sri-lankan-elephant-law-might-not-help-all-elephants-critics-say/

🌀 “Elephants who are wild in spirit… once broken, will have hopeless, miserable, tortured, toil filled lives, feeding the greed of a pompous few who will justify this enslavement in the name of a culture they do not possess while desecrating the name of the all enlightened one… “— Rukshan Jayawardena, Director, Environmental Foundation Limited

These self-serving changes in governmental policy will affect the lives of captive elephants, their babies, those that struggle as slaved animals, ‘tamed’ for hard, tedious work and for cultural and religious events. Effectively the actions will promote the illegal elephant smuggling racket, both nationally and internationally.

❗ Most egregious:
Elephants are being kept in electrified protected areas - concentration camps not much different from those concentration camps meant for human species erected not so long ago.

🙏 🐘 Join us:
Will you join hands in solidarity to demand the right for elephants to live free and wild?

More here:
https://bit.ly/3kbpPxw

Further information:
https://bit.ly/3nAYC9o
Image: ©Elephant Voices

11/09/2021

We have watched so much cruelty to elephants and other animals in Sri Lanka but held off calling for a tourism boycott because of the collateral damage this causes to innocent people, but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH this latest cruel underhand action by the Sri Lankan government in returning illegal elephants back to the accused smugglers and their cohorts CANNOT be ignored and there is now no alternative .
🌎 ⚠️We call upon every person that cares about animals and specifically elephants to post this graphic across your social media profiles Twitter Instagram etc… also send to travel agents and tour operators and Sri Lanka Tourism. ️

08/09/2021

SCANDAL IN SRI LANKA ..... read below

07/09/2021

SCANDAL AT SRI LANKA !!! PETITION !!!!!
read below

07/09/2021

SCANDAL IN SRI LANKA: the government supports the elephant traffickers and delivers the baby elephants stolen, 5 years ago from the wild, back to their original illegal keepers. Sri Lanka can now officially be described as a “banana republic” a place where no justice exists unless you grease the palms of those in power. These now juvenile elephants must now face a life of torture at the hands of their captors

🚩The first of the illegal elephants has already been taken from Udawalawa Transit Home. By owner of Birds Resort Hambantota Ajith Gallage who was clearly eager to reclaim the stolen elephant calf now a juvenile.

👉👉We urge all international to if they wish to support ‘Birds Resort Hambantota’ with their tourist dollars❓
https://www.facebook.com/BirdsResortSriLanka

🔺We $DO NOT and WILL support wildlife crime or wildlife criminals and their accomplices even though the current Sri Lankan government clearly does!

03/09/2021

🚩🚩🚩🐘
NEW Fauna and Flora (Protection, Well being and Regularisation of Registration of Tamed Elephants) Regulations No. 1 of 2021❓
You thought all in a sudden our Government wanted to concentrate on elephant welfare❓
🔺🔺🔺🔺HERE IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY MEAN TO ELEPHANTS 🔺🔺🔺
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 deceives the 🌎 .srilanka_ .k.d.2020 .rights.project