Sri Lanka, Sept. 2 -- Sri Lankan wildlife photographer Lakshitha Karunaratne's striking image, "Toxic Tip", has been named among the 100 award-winning photographs at the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, now in its 61st year at the Natural History Museum, London.

The photograph, which captures a lone elephant foraging through a waste disposal site in Sri Lanka, was selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries submitted worldwide. Karunaratne has long documented the human-elephant conflict on the island, where nearly 7,500 elephants often struggle for survival - some tragically seeking food in open rubbish dumps.

Expressing his gratitude, Karunaratne described the recognition as both humbling and significant. H...