Ministry seeks public views on resolving human-elephant conflict

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The Ministry of Environment has called for public views to reduce the human elephant conflict.

The decision had been taken during a meeting held between Deputy Minister of Environment, Anton Jayakody and the Deputy Minister of Trade, Commerce and Food Security, R. M Jayawardhana at the Wellawaya Divisional Secretary office, yesterday.

The meeting was held to discuss methods to control the human -elephant conflict within Monaragala district.

State officials, villagers took part in the meeting.

The ministry stated that the new government is carrying out a special program to mitigate the human elephant conflict, and had even allocated money for that within the 2025 budject proposals.

Recently a suspending elephant fence too was set up at Weerawila using new technology.

The meeting was also held to discuss of practical and scientific solutions for the prevailing human-elephant conflict.

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