Wild elephants were photographed eating garbage in a landfill that invades their habitat in Sri Lanka
Dramatic images come from Sri Lanka where wild elephants desperate for food rummage in an open-air garbage dump in Oluvil.
Photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan throws a harsh reality in our face: a herd of about 30 elephants that, due to the loss of biodiversity, are forced to look for food in the garbage of the landfill.
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The risk is very high for their health: by ingesting plastics and microplastics they could suffocate or have serious repercussions on internal organs. Yet the landfill is there, in the middle of the jungle in the eastern province of the country. The waste comes from several districts including Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu and invades entire land where wild logging has taken place.
Thus the elephants eat rubbish, plastic bags, nylon, garbage dumped in the forest and not properly disposed of. The pachyderms have a hard time finding food and therefore come closer and closer to the rice fields and villages. This poses a danger to both animals and people. The authorities, however, do not intervene and the conflict between inhabitants and elephants is growing, not to mention that the latter risk suffocation and the loss of the species leads to an ecological imbalance.
Look at the pictures:
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Source: Hoa hoctro
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