Guest guest Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 It is very good news that wildlife in Sri Lanka seem to have escaped hardship caused by the tsunami, but domesticated animals - including livestock, dogs, and cats - are lost and hungry. >http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/world/story/1957208p-9956290c.html > >Tsunami kills few animals in Sri Lanka > >By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE, Associated Press Writer > >Wednesday, December 29th, 2004 03:21 AM (PST) > > >YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka >expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale >animal deaths from the tsunamis - indicating that animals may have sensed >the wave coming and fled to higher ground. >An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National >Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, >buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse. > >Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and >toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge >tree - but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out >high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran >a hotel in the park. > > " This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to >see a dead animal, " said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was destroyed. > > " Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense, " Wijeyeratne >said. > >Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, >crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also >has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers 391 >square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists. > >http://www.animalsinthewild.org > -- Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish language subsections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 Is there any way that people can help these animals through organizations in the area or such? I would appreciate a reply. Patricia Kim Bartlett <anpeople wrote: > > > It is very good news that wildlife in Sri Lanka seem to have >escaped hardship caused by the tsunami, but domesticated animals - >including livestock, dogs, and cats - are lost and hungry. > > >>http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/world/story/1957208p-9956290c.html >> >>Tsunami kills few animals in Sri Lanka >> >>By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE, Associated Press Writer >> >>Wednesday, December 29th, 2004 03:21 AM (PST) >> >> >>YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka >>expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale >>animal deaths from the tsunamis - indicating that animals may have sensed >>the wave coming and fled to higher ground. >>An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National >>Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, >>buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse. >> >>Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting trees and >>toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge >>tree - but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought out >>high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran >>a hotel in the park. >> >> " This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to >>see a dead animal, " said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was destroyed. >> >> " Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense, " Wijeyeratne >>said. >> >>Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian Elephants, >>crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also >>has Asia's highest concentration of leopards. The Yala reserve covers 391 >>square miles, but only 56 square miles are open to tourists. >> >>http://www.animalsinthewild.org >> > >-- >Kim Bartlett, Publisher of ANIMAL PEOPLE Newspaper >Postal mailing address: P.O. Box 960, Clinton WA 98236 U.S.A. >CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS IS: <ANPEOPLE >Website: http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/ with French and Spanish >language subsections. > > > > > > >For more information on Asian animal issues, please use the search feature on the AAPN website: http://www.aapn.org/ or search the list archives at: aapn >Please feel free to send any relevant news or comments to the list at aapn > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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