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Ageing gracefully:
Caring for elders with dignity
According to reliable statistics, more than 22
percent of our population will be over 60 in about two decades. Of
the rest of the population, there will be 61 dependents for each 100
adults. According to another survey, Sri Lanka has been rated as the
country with the fastest growing ageing population in South East
Asia.
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Vignettes:
The world belongs to crows too
The recent move by the Colombo Municipal Council
to destroy crow nests in the city and its subsequent withdrawal
raises some interesting issues for nature lovers in general and
animal lovers in particular. If the authorities went ahead with
destroying crow nests, the next step would be killing crows.
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The heroic tusker of Panamura
He was the celebrated leader elephant of
Panamura. The leader elephant's stiff fighting back to rescue his
group of elephants was of a heroic calibre that must rank with the
most memorable in animal world and perhaps in human world.
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