WNPS lecture on conserving Asian elephants
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Nilanga Jayasinghe
“Asian elephant conservation: the long road ahead”, will be the topic of this month’s Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) lecture by Nilanga Jayasinghe on September 23 at 7 p.m. The lecture will be via Zoom and FB Live and those interested could register online on https://forms.gle/WoHurA2n2465k6Y76
Asian elephants once ranged from West Asia, through the Indian subcontinent, and all the way north to the Yangtze River in China. Today, there are less than 50,000 wild elephants in only 13 countries across Asia.
Nilanga Jayasinghe, a Manager on the Wildlife Conservation team at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has nearly 20 years of extensive experience in international species conservation and has worked on conservation issues across the board in Asia, Africa, and North America. She is a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) and the Asian Rhino Specialist Group (AsRSG) under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Species Survival Commission (SSC), and a member of the Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group under the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas.