Nations Trust WNPS lecture on care and release of orphaned elephants

THE next Nations Trust WNPS monthly lecture series will host Elephant Transit Home, Udawalawe Head Veterinarian Dr. Malaka Abeywardana on 14 August at 6 p.m. at the Jasmine Hall, BMICH.

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The lecture is themed ‘Bringing them Back: Inside the Care and Release of Orphaned Elephants.’

In a nation famed for its elephants but scarred by rising human-elephant conflict, a sanctuary tucked into the edge of the Udawalawe National Park is quietly changing the future of elephant conservation — one calf at a time.

The Elephant Transit Home (ETH), established in 1995 by Sri Lanka’s Department of Wildlife Conservation, is today recognised as the world’s most successful elephant rehabilitation and rewilding program. Its mission is bold but clear: rescue orphaned elephants, raise them wild, and return them to their natural home — the wild.