Gazette on adoption, safety measures for elephants

An extraordinary gazette notification was issued for the adoption of safety measures for elephants, including the erection of electrical fences, trenches, reforestation, and standards and specifications for traditional tools used by mahouts.

The gazette notification was issued by Wildlife Protection State Minister Wimalaweera Dissanayaka under section 22A of the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (Chapter 469).

The gazette notification includes the protection and wellbeing of tamed elephants, regularizing the registration of tamed elephants, obtaining tamed elephants for historical cultural processions, standards and specifications of traditional tools used by mahouts, the Application Form for the Registration of a Tamed Elephant, the Application Form for the Registration of an Unregistered Elephant that is currently in the custody of an owner, the Licence Form for the Registration and Detaining of Tame Elephants, the Form for the renewal of the annual licence, the Data Record Book and the Application Form for Obtaining Elephants for a Historical Cultural Procession. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)

The gazette notification is as follows: