Sri Lankan Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera recently announced that the government is considering a Chinese private company’s proposal to import 100,000 “toque macaque” monkeys from Sri ...
A man holds a fire torch and walks around his home in a mask to chase away toque macaques from his garden in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka, on Jan. 21, 2025. (Thilina Kaluthotage / NurPhoto via AFP) COLOMBO, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “A monkey has come into contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system,” Kumara Jayakody, Sri Lanka’s ...
Farmers have protested against the Sri Lankan government's failure to control the growing population of Toque macaque monkeys, which severely threatens their livelihoods. The farmers say the growing ...
Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide census Saturday of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, in a bid to prepare countermeasures to protect crops, officials said. In the north-central ...