Counting elephants

13 August 2011 01:33 am

The picture shows Wild Life Department officers and volunteers in the field of the first census of elephants after 18 years at the Minneriya National Park. Elephants will be counted for three days as they come to drink from water holes, reservoirs and tanks. Statistics will also be collected under various groups, such as adult male, adult female, adolescent Juvenile and calf. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja