Elephant Orphanage Pinnawala Sr Lanka is located close to Kegalle town, halfway between Colombo & Kandy.
Elephant Orphanage Pinnawala is the only Elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka that was established in 1975 and started with 5 orphaned elephants the current population is 93 of both sexes / all age groups. The prime purpose of the Pinnawala Elephant orphanage is to provide refuge for the elephants which are injured/orphaned & abandoned in the wild. This orphanage is operating as a breeding ground too since 1980. Most of the new arrivals are babies and after a few days of quarantine, they are released into the herd and welcomed happily. The orphanage covers an area of a 23-acre land in the middle of the county & managed by the Department of National Zoological Gardens. This is the largest captive herd of elephants in the world belonging to the Elephas maximus Maximus.
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