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Plans to establish two new elephant corridors

by Florence Wickramage

The Department of Wildlife Conservation is investigating the possibility of establishing two new important elephant corridors to save the elephant population, Director General DWLC Dayananda Kariyawasam told the Daily News yesterday.

The first is the Ritigala Southward Extension towards Minneriya which is now called the Yan Oya Sanctuary. Field inspection work has been completed and the survey work is on-going. This 4500 hectare corridor will allow safe passage for the large number of elephants in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa areas.

The second planned out corridor is the North Eastern extension of Yala combining Yala National Park to the Lahugala National Park. Kariyawasam said that in this corridor certain difficulties have emerged with a large number of seasonal farmers who establish plantain cultivations and also chenas on a large scale.

Kariyawasam said "since we have a very good population of elephants, the department is striving to increase the carrying capacity inside the parks by improving food and water facilities by linking isolated parks through corridors".

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