{"id":62669,"date":"2024-03-19T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/19\/sri-lanka-elephants-people-deaths-natural-resources-climate-crisis-coexistence-aoe"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:00:24","slug":"death-tolls-mount-as-elephants-and-people-compete-for-land-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62669","title":{"rendered":"Death tolls mount as elephants and people compete for land in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decade<\/p>\n<p>Setting out from home to collect firewood on a cool spring morning last year, Harshini Wanninayake and her mother had no idea only one of them would come back alive. The pair were walking to a nearby forest from Eriyawa, a village in north-west Sri Lanka, when they heard a loud rustling close by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came out of nowhere,\u201d says Wanninayake. \u201cThe elephant was behind the thicket and took us completely by surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/19\/sri-lanka-elephants-people-deaths-natural-resources-climate-crisis-coexistence-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists plead for coexistence as shrinking forests drive conflict, with elephant deaths doubling in a decadeSetting out from home to collect firewood on a cool spring morning last year, Harshini Wanninayake and her mother had no idea only one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,821,65,59,61,674,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-deforestation","category-environment","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62669\/revisions\/62670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}