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Welcome to Nature TV Studios, a dynamic collaboration between WildWatch International (Pvt) Ltd and the Centre for Eco-Cultural Studies (CES). Immerse yourself in the seamless integration of technology and nature, heightened by our outstanding video and sound editing services. The first-floor studio, complete with a green screen, provides the ideal setting. The second floor beckons with cozy two-room apartments, boasting attached bathrooms, a studio-type kitchen, dining facilities, fridge, and inviting sitting areas. Elevate your experience on our eco-friendly fourth and fifth-floor terrace gardens, offering both filming and relaxation facilities, and providing breathtaking aerial views of the boundless sky and the vibrant cityscape of Colombo.

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REMEMBRANCE OF DEAD ELEPHANTS - 2023

Welcome to a poignant tribute etched in reverence - the Remembrance of Dead Elephants event, n annual ceremony honoring the memories of these majestic

fellow species lost to the callousness of humanity.Since 2019, we've held this heartfelt gathering, and this year, on Saturday, December 30th, 2023, we assembled near the hallowed Monument in Galgamuwa, where the shadows of many wild elephants' untimely fates linger. This chosen space bears witness to the tragic ends faced by these gentle giants, making it a poignant backdrop for our procession, a solemn walk marking their legacy. Beyond mere steps, this event is a mosaic of tributes - from the nurturing offerings of Gilanpasa to the poignant Pansakula ceremony, not only honoring departed elephants but also the brave officers who stood as guardians of their kind. In this gathering, wisdom resonates through the voices of experts, their words echoing the sentiments of all who gather. Musical interludes weave through the air, a harmonious ode to these magnificent fellow species. And as the evening descends, a hundred oil lamps will flicker before the Monument, each flame illuminating the enduring memory of these beloved beings. Crafted with compassion and a quest for justice, this event is spearheaded by Justice for Animals and Nature joint hand with other concern agencies . Together, we stand in unity, paying homage to the spirits of these remarkable souls and advocating for a world where their legacy inspires empathy and protection for all life forms.

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Tears of the Giants, official trailer

By Nature Tv

The captive elephant industry has been abusive and hampers the social behaviour of elephants,when deprive of its bonds. Elephant slavery in its worst form of abuse has continued to thrive as a result of a wildlife criminal network in operation.

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The documentary films featured for proposed production partnerships, showcases Sri Lanka’s remarkable wildlife that stand out among the global best. It is not only to raise awareness, but serves as a conservation initiative to protect threatened wildlife and to raise funding for the various communication and conservation initiatives targeted in Asia and Africa. Nature TV Sri Lanka is engaged in featuring a series of documentary films on Sri Lanka’s wildlife capturing different aspects of Sri Lanka’s endangered, vulnerable and threatened wildlife as its Kick-start. There are many ways to support Nature TV Sri Lanka initiatives, you can make a donation, production partnership, sponsorship for events or volunteering for filming and conservation initiatives targeted in Asia and Africa.

Tears of the Giants

By Nature Tv

Principal among the features is the endeavor to end captive slavery of wildlife in crisis. The documentary focuses on the abusive captive elephant industry, driven through commercial exploitation and wildlife crime under the veil of culture and tradition, and in the backdrop of Buddhism, but defied in its pristine practical teachings.

Throughout Sri Lanka’s long history dating back to several millennia, the captive elephant industry has abused and enslaved elephants in the wild and hampered their ardently “social” behaviour, much like the suffering the human mammalian species endures, when deprived of its bonds. The pains of abuse are reflected in the culture that promotes captive elephant slavery for commercial use and exploitation of Sri Lanka’s flagship species – that Sri Lanka as a nation has failed to recognize as being priceless -- “in practice”! Elephant slavery in its worst form of abuse has continued to thrive as a result of a wildlife criminal network in operation for over several years. It comprises diverse nouveau riche members of society exposed a mere 5 years ago and who have been brought before courts in cases filed by the State and CES, in combating wildlife crime.

Vanishing Trails

By Nature Tv

This documentary endeavors to capture the essence of the losing battle of Sri Lanka’s elephants in the wild, in a human-dominated landscape on what was once extensive traditional “elephant” habitat. Inept decisions/government resolutions/a dereliction of duties depriving wildlife with deliberate human interventions

by way of flooding during the dry season (June-October) have led to habitat loss, including elephant feeding grounds and a rapid change in their traditional migration patterns that have led to the increased Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) in the region.

Monkey Call

By Nature Tv

This documentary features the importance of conserving the Western Purple-faced leaf Monkey, which is globally identified as one of the most endangered primate species among 25 others in the world. They are at risk of population decline, principally owing to habitat loss with the growing urbanization and diverse other human activities

in “modernization”, in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. The documentary gives an introduction to Sri Lanka’s other primate species from the endemic Toque Monkey, Grey Langur, Purple-faced Leaf Monkey and its counterpart in the Upper Montane – the Bear Monkey -- to the nocturnal Loris in the “Dry Zone. Among the threats they face, range from loss of habitat in urban and semi-urban areas, road hits/kills, electrocution, poaching for food.

Pride of Yala

By Nature Tv

Once renowned for its elephant activities, the elephants of Yala have now been replaced with leopard, as today’s “Pride of Yala”. The leopard population in Yala is healthier than it has ever been with their home range and available food source sufficiently adequate. Leopard are often sighted in their given locations, lazing around within their range, unless threatened by vehicular traffic to the park.

The principal threat in Yala, however, remains water scarcity in the seasonal summer drought and increased threat of over-visitation that requires urgent addressing, and dwindling habitats.

Kingdom of the Wilds – Yala National Park

By Nature Tv

Renowned for its biodiversity rich habitat, located in south-east Sri Lanka, Block I of Yala National Park is the most visited National Park in Sri Lanka, owing to its high density of mega fauna, including Sri Lanka’s ‘Top 7 Wild’. Elephant, leopard, sambhur, spotted deer, water buffalo, crocodile and a large number of water birds,

including the endangered Black-necked Stork frequent Yala National Park’s Block I, that extends to Blocks II, III, IV and V, constituting Yala or ‘Ruhunu’ National Park, in its entirety. Elephant habitat in Yala is under threat, however, from dwindling highly disturbed secondary forest with habitual grazing lands around the park environs, encroached by commercial tourism operators, domestic cattle and buffalo illegally allowed entry into the Park by herders and a seasonal water scarcity in the long dry summer. Further, recent studies reveal that over 52% of Block I of Yala National Park’s young elephant calves are prone to death as infants/juveniles, before they reach the tender age of two years, from malnourishment of the she-elephants who are not fit enough to feed their young with the onset of the drought, when there is a severe shortage of food when grazing lands dry up, intensified by cattle/buffalo competing for their grasslands. This has been aggravated by the recent installation of electric fencing around the park boundaries where it is revealed that the majority of elephants frequenting Block I, now live in the outer circle of protected area designated boundaries, in their constant search for food and water.

A Community in Flight

By Nature Tv

Features the nesting behaviour of Painted Storks in all their shades. The large healthy colony is depicted nurturing their nestlings in what seem like amply sufficient nests though crude-looking structures, constructed above the waters of a renovated tank (lake). The raucous sounds reverberate in almost a frenzy across the freshwater lakes, lending a voice to the welcoming call of the wild! Alarming for protection of their wetland habitats.

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