Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse ^29%

KUOW Public Radio - By Diaa Hadid, Susitha Fernando - 5/16/2026, 11:33 PM

Negativity Bias 18.7% - Appeal to Authority 17.1% - Appeal to Emotion 15.5%

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka –- On a break, farmer Gunasinghe Kapuga draws on a cigarette and describes relations between farmers and elephants that raid their fields in the central Sri Lankan district of Matale: "Obviously, it's war." He's referring to increasingly deadly encounters between farmers and pachyderms. Now Kapuga fears that the... more