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| 08:12 AM Sep 26 2021

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Reutlinger Nachrichten’ says that in Sri Lanka working Indian elephants – those which work for the tourist branche and those that work for example for farmers alike – often are treated with cruelty. During their training elephant calves sometimes are trapped in enclosures where they can barely move without food or water or a companion (despite them being herd animals), elephants get transported for more than 12 hours from one place to another, some elephant owners don’t care and hire alcoholics as mahouts and you sometimes see more than 4 tourists riding one and the same elephant at the same time. Plus despite being illegal, poachers still capture young elephants to sell them as working animals. Thus now the government of Sri Lanka is working on some new laws that will make life for these elephants more animal friendly.

| 12:28 PM Oct 27 2018

Dorothee

Germany

The news-show ‘Heute’ says that even though the president of Sri Lanka dismissed his prime Minister – who still considers his dismissal illegitimate and hopes that a court will agree – and his entire parliament. The new prime minister Rajapaksa already was sworn in, but is criticized by many for his acts in the Sri Lankan civil war – like being against a cease fire.

| 09:11 AM Mar 10 2018

Dorothee

Germany

“Domradio” says that last weekend somewhere in Sri Lanka a Buddhist was attacked and injured by four Muslims who then calmly let the police arrest them.
This incident however resulted in a lot of acts of Islamophobia among Sri Lankan non-Muslims. While some spread Islamophobic propaganda on the Internet (that by the way was full of lies) others set buildings with Muslims inside on fire or demonstrated on the street against their government allowing for Muslims to live in Sri Lanka.
Surprisingly so far no Muslim was injured seriously, but the Sri Lankan government decided to block the Internet in the entire country to stop the spread of Islamophobic propaganda and online threats against Muslims.

| 12:53 PM Jul 13 2017

Dorothee

Germany

“Domradio” says that Sri Lanka currently is haunted by the worst dengue-fever epidemic it has ever experienced. This disease caused by the aedes-mosquito can even result in coma or death in extreme cases. Thus public people like stars, politicians or clerics encourage people to look for aedes-mosquitoes and their eggs and to eliminate them. These insects lay their eggs into artificial water containers and can be recognized easily by their white markings.

| 01:54 PM Dec 10 2016

Dorothee

Germany

Slightly off topic as this isn’t about rainforests: When thinking about child labor, I think nobody would say that the first thing coming to his mind would be the pet-industry. Now however the latest sample of “Geolino” says that by the coast of Sri Lanka extremely poor fishermen force especially their sons to swim – not to travel by boat that is – out into the sea to catch some especially beautiful fish or water plants alive. Then these creatures will be sold to companies that trade animals.

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