Srilanka, May 18 -- A two-day workshop was held on Friday (May 16) and Saturday (May 17) at the Giritale National Wildlife Training and Research Centre to educate locomotive drivers and Railway Department officials on averting collisions with wild elephants on trains.

Railway Department officials including the General Manager of Railways and wildlife officials including the Director General of the Department of Wildlife Conservation participated in the workshop.

The implementation of development projects in Sri Lanka at various times, changes in land use patterns, and loss of elephant habitat due to clearing the forest areas have been the main reasons for the escalation of the Human-Elephant Conflict.

A large number of wild elephants ...