Sri Lanka counts seven million crop-busting monkeys

Sri Lanka counts seven million crop-busting monkeys

Sri Lanka counted more than seven million monkeys during a census of crop-destroying wildlife, authorities said Thursday, after a government minister called the figure "unbelievable".

Sri Lanka has 5.71mn torque macaques, 4.24 peacocks : report

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has 5.71 million torque macaques (rilawa) and 4.24 million peacocks, according to census carried out by authorities, the state information office said. There were also 1.74 million grey langurs and 2.26 grizzled giant squirrels. Torque macaques populations have been rapidly growing in recent years and there are growing complaints from farmers that they destroying crops. There are attempts to reduce the population of torqu…