Some 40,000 local officials were deployed to count wild boar, lorises, peacocks, and monkeys near farms and homes during a five-minute period on Saturday morning.
“We are having census during a very short time period to ensure there is no double counting,“ ministry official Ajith Pushpakumara told reporters in the capital Colombo.
In Anuradhapura, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Colombo, residents were out early in the fields preparing for the census.
Opposition legislator Nalin Bandara criticised the census, calling it a “waste of money”.
Officials say more than a third of crops are destroyed by wild animals, including elephants, which are protected by law as they are considered sacred.
In 2023, the-then agricultural minister proposed exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists.
Sri Lanka removed several species from its protected list in 2023, including all three of its monkey species as well as peacocks and wild boars, allowing farmers to kill them.
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