Sri Lanka, March 10 -- At least nine elephants succumbed to injuries as a result of elephant-train collisions by March 2025. The frequency of elephants colliding with trains traveling towards Mannar, Batticaloa and Trincomalee have raised concerns among the wildlife fraternity. Even though many solutions have been proposed, none of these interventions proved to be successful. But in a bid to reduce the probability of elephant-train collisions along these railway routes, the Railways Department recently revised the train schedules for the trains 'Udaya Devi', 'Pulathisi' and 'Meenagaya' in addition to trains 7083 and 7084. The new schedules came into effect from March 7.

Adherence to speed limits critical until more effective solutions ...