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Sri Lanka releases national animal census report

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The report of the National Animal Census conducted on March 15 was published on Thursday (12).

It was officially released at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Some 40,000 local officials were deployed to count many crop damaging animals during a five-minute period on March 15.

Accordingly, the islandwide survey shows the following numbers of wild animals:

  • Toque monkeys (Rilawa) – 5.17 million
  • Gray Langurs (Wandura) – 1.74 million
  • Giant Squirrel (Dandu Lena) – 2.66 million
  • Peacocks – 4.24 million

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