: Sri Lanka Tourism in its efforts to promote ecotourism in the country yesterday joined hands with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources releasing 8 baby elephants to the wild. The baby elephants who were orphans and brought up at the Elephant Transit Home in Udawalawe was released to Udawalawe National Park which is estimated to have 400 wild elephants. Despite 150 elephants are being killed annually in Sri Lanka by farmers when elephants destroy the crops it is estimated to have 4,000 wild elephants in the country. However wild life officials say the number is drastically reducing.