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NEWS - England: Verdacht auf Autobombe in Bristol
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Simon Chapman/LNP/REX/Shutterstock (5829053f)
Police seal off parts of Bristol city centre and call in the Bomb Disposal team after a suspicious vehicle, thought to be a green VW car was found parked right by Bridewell Police station.
Bomb disposal at suspicious vehicle, Bristol, UK - 14 Aug 2016
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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NEWS - England: Verdacht auf Autobombe in Bristol
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Simon Chapman/LNP/REX/Shutterstock (5829053e)
Police seal off parts of Bristol city centre and call in the Bomb Disposal team after a suspicious vehicle, thought to be a green VW car was found parked right by Bridewell Police station.
Bomb disposal at suspicious vehicle, Bristol, UK - 14 Aug 2016
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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NEWS - England: Verdacht auf Autobombe in Bristol
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Simon Chapman/LNP/REX/Shutterstock (5829053b)
Police seal off parts of Bristol city centre and call in the Bomb Disposal team after a suspicious vehicle, thought to be a green VW car was found parked right by Bridewell Police station.
Bomb disposal at suspicious vehicle, Bristol, UK - 14 Aug 2016
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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NEWS - England: Verdacht auf Autobombe in Bristol
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Simon Chapman/LNP/REX/Shutterstock (5829053a)
Police seal off parts of Bristol city centre and call in the Bomb Disposal team after a suspicious vehicle, thought to be a green VW car was found parked right by Bridewell Police station.
Bomb disposal at suspicious vehicle, Bristol, UK - 14 Aug 2016
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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NEWS - Irak: Einwohner von Kirkuk auf der Flucht vor dem IS
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, Iraq - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, Iraq who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, Iraq who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, Iraq who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - An unexploded mortar lies close to the firefighting efforts (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_006
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, Iraq who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_010
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Firefighters from the city of Kirkuk, Iraq who specialize in the disposal of oil field fires have been fighting The Qayyara fires for months. They claim that it will take many months more. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Iraqi authorities carefully remove an unexploded mortar that was found close to the firefighting efforts (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_004
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_001
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_017
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Children play in the smoke and soot of the fires unaware of the damage that released carcinogens will do to their developing bodies for many years to come (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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DUK10045872_012
NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Children play in the smoke and soot of the fires unaware of the damage that released carcinogens will do to their developing bodies for many years to come (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - The futbol field destroyed by ISIS inside the town of Qayyara. Under their strict in interpretation of Islam sports are not allowed (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Children play in the smoke and soot of the fires unaware of the damage that released carcinogens will do to their developing bodies for many years to come (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - A shepherd tends his sheep who were once white. However, after four months of burnt oil smoke their coats have turned black (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Fires have been burning for the last four months in the oil rich town of Qayarra, south of Mosul ever since ISIS retreated and set fire to the wells, creating a massive environmental disaster. These massive fires are now visible from space (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Irak: Brennende Ölfelder in Qayyara
November 23, 2016 - Qayyara, Ninewa Province, IRAQ - Despite living under extraordinary circumstance life is beginning to return to normal in the town and children have begun returning to school (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238h)
A Sri Lankan boy rides past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238f)
A Sri Lankan man walks past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238g)
A woman walks past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238l)
A Sri Lankan man rides past a pile of trash with his child
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238c)
Pedestrians walk past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238m)
A pedestrian walks past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238b)
Crows fight for their share in a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238j)
Crows eat garbage
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238n)
Flies sit on a Sri Lankan municipal worker as he naps next to a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238i)
A Sri Lankan man throws trash onto garbage piled on a street
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238d)
A Sri Lankan worker removes garbage from a street
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238a)
A Sri Lankan worker removes garbage from a street
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238e)
A Sri Lankan boy rides past a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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NEWS - Sri Lanka: Abfallkrise in Colombo
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sanka Gayashan/REX/Shutterstock (8924238k)
A Sri Lankan worker sorts garbage next to a pile of trash
Garbage disposal crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka - 09 Jul 2017
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 227 people and infecting more than 79,000 this year. Last year more than 55,000 cases were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32 people.
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FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
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FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
(c) Dukas -
DUK10137073_003
FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
(c) Dukas -
DUK10137073_004
FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
(c) Dukas -
DUK10137073_006
FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
(c) Dukas -
DUK10137073_018
FEATURE - Elefanten auf Nahrungssuche auf einer Mülldeponie in Sri Lanka
**MANDATORY CREDIT: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images**
These harrowing images of elephants foraging for food on a Sri Lankan garbage facility were captured by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer.
Elephants normally travel over 30 km per day and seed up to 3500 new trees a day. For the Oluvhil Palakadhu elephants many things have changed and their changed behavior will change our landscape. Tharmapalan Tilaxan has observed this open garbage dump amidst the jungles of the Eastern Province for many months and documented the hazards this poses to the local elephant population.
He explains the scenes in his own words:
In the eastern province, a herd of wild elephants have picked up a peculiar—and sad—habit: Since of late, these elephants have been seen foraging for food in garbage dumps.
One garbage dump—situated near an area near known as ‘Ashraf Nagar’ close to the forest bordering the Oluvil-Pallakadu area in the Ampara district—is considered the cause of this new, destructive and unhealthy habit.
Garbage from Sammanthurai, Kalmunai, Karaitheevu, Ninthavur, Addalachchenai, Akkaraipattu and Alaiyadi Vembu is dumped here, and has slowly encroached on the adjacent forest, becoming easily accessible to the wild elephants of Oluvil.
As a result of unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene, large quantities of undigested pollutants have been found in the excretion of these wild animals. A number of postmortems carried out on elephant cadavers have yielded plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomach contents.
The herd of wild elephants—numbering about 25-30—now accustomed to feeding so close to human habitat have also begun to invade nearby paddy fields and villages seeking more food adding more tension to the already fraught relationship between the villagers and the wild animals.
Despite a number of roundtable discussions with authorities that arrived at many solutions — including the constructi
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REPORTAGE - Abfalltrennung in Indien
January 3, 2018 - Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India - ChakLala village in Bishnah area of Jammu has acquired tag of first village in north India to generate income from the kitchen waste because of project set up by the Department of Rural Development Department for Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM). A decentralized process of disposing off the waste by this project solid waste generated by households is separately composted and disposed off safely. The project is aimed to keep the environment clean and healthy (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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REPORTAGE - Abfalltrennung in Indien
January 3, 2018 - Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India - ChakLala village in Bishnah area of Jammu has acquired tag of first village in north India to generate income from the kitchen waste because of project set up by the Department of Rural Development Department for Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM). A decentralized process of disposing off the waste by this project solid waste generated by households is separately composted and disposed off safely. The project is aimed to keep the environment clean and healthy (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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REPORTAGE - Abfalltrennung in Indien
January 3, 2018 - Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India - ChakLala village in Bishnah area of Jammu has acquired tag of first village in north India to generate income from the kitchen waste because of project set up by the Department of Rural Development Department for Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM). A decentralized process of disposing off the waste by this project solid waste generated by households is separately composted and disposed off safely. The project is aimed to keep the environment clean and healthy (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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REPORTAGE - Abfalltrennung in Indien
January 3, 2018 - Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India - ChakLala village in Bishnah area of Jammu has acquired tag of first village in north India to generate income from the kitchen waste because of project set up by the Department of Rural Development Department for Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM). A decentralized process of disposing off the waste by this project solid waste generated by households is separately composted and disposed off safely. The project is aimed to keep the environment clean and healthy (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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