Located along Sri Lanka’s southeastern coast, Kumana National Park is renowned for its large waterbird colonies and its vital ...

Here she reminiscences about bringing up a leopard cub she named Poppaea. The rescue of this leopard cub at about the time as zoologist Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala delineated the taxonomic ...

Kumana National Park is known to be home to the world’s second-largest population of leopards (Panthera pardus kotiya) ..

Image courtesy of Rohan Fonseka, via Mongabay. The sloth bear is one of Sri Lanka’s “Big Five” species, alongside the elephant and leopard, and holds major appeal for nature-based tourism.