Deputy Environment Minister Anton Jayakodi said authorities had begun a review of the nationwide survey conducted on March 15, the first of its kind, because “some of the data was unbelievable”.
Data in some places appeared “unusually high”, officials said.
“We started the survey to understand the size of the problem,“ Jayakodi told reporters in Colombo. “But we now have to review the results... there have been issues with some unusual data.”
Opposition legislator Nalin Bandara said the survey was “a complete failure, a waste of money”.
While elephants are major raiders of rice farms and fruit plantations, they were not included in the March count.
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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