Sri Lanka, Oct. 22 -- "The Department of Wildlife Conservation has neither formulated nor is it formulating any plan to reduce the elephant population"

- Kumarasiri Wijekoon, President, Association of Wildlife Range Assistant Professionals

"A group of people claiming to be environmentalists are using old and new photographs to create various news stories. If the false news on Facebook and YouTube claiming that elephants have died or have been killed could be stopped, half of the elephant problem would be solved"

- Director General of Wildlife Conservation, M.S.L.R.P. Marasinghe

"Elephant deaths have been reported continuously over the past several years"

-Inoka Damayanthi, Environmentalist

Environmentalist Inoka Damayanthi, commen...