Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and ...

Elephant distribution map for Sri Lanka. ... Much of southwestern Sri Lanka, however, known as the “wet zone,” is heavily developed and densely populated, and thus has virtually no elephants.

On this account the Sri Lanka’s DZ is not dry. Though not as wet as the Wet Zone, its annual average rainfall of about 1500 mm is only 25% less than the lower end annual rainfall figure for the Wet ...