Rs. 10 billion needed to manage wild elephants of Sri Lanka
August 31, 2007, ColomboPage News Desk
A Sri Lanka Minister says that the Ministry needs Rs. 10 billion per year (about us$ 200 million US$) for the management of wild elephants in the country. However, the Ministry receives only Rs. 3 billion for all its work, according to him.
The Minister also pointed out that the shortage of tamed elephants would be a problem in future since - there are only 137 tamed elephants while there are 72 famous cultural pageants per year countrywide.
Extra-ordinary! Who would have thought that taming of elephants would be such a sizable industry!
Oringinal news source: Colombo Page
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