Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo collage of elephants, a freshly picked bunch of mangoes, a road sign warning of elephant activity. In the background, there ...

At a garbage dump in central Sri Lanka a herd of wild elephants forage among a mountain of rubbish, swallowing dangerous scraps of plastic mixed with rotting food in what experts warn is an increasing ...

Editor’s Note: “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” features an inside look at the fatal conflict playing out between elephants and mankind in Sri Lanka. “Elephant Vs. Man” with CNN's Nick Paton ...

Elephants are revered in Sri Lanka. There are more than 7,000 of them, and most of them live freely across the island, near villages and farms. But that intermingling is triggering deadly conflict, ...

With 238 elephant deaths reported between January and end of July this year, including several iconic tuskers that were found dead, there is increasing concerns about possible organized crime network ...

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka –- On a break, farmer Gunasinghe Kapuga draws on a cigarette and describes relations between farmers and elephants that raid their fields in the central Sri Lankan district of ...

People and elephants are increasingly competing for the same land in Sri Lanka, leading to a rising number of deaths among both populations. Farmers are increasingly "encroaching" on elephant habitats ...

A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but ...

Conflict between farmers and elephants in Sri Lanka has grown worse as food and fuel are scarcer due to war in the Middle East. Elephants are revered in Sri Lanka. There are more than 7,000 of them, ...