Syd
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Bob Cook
>
> From: Syd Curtis <>
> Date: 01/01/2005 7:26:48
> To: <>
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Tsunami
>
>
> Can anyone please supply the name, correct title, and address (email or
> snail-mail) for the United States Ambassador to Australia? I suggest that
> apart from personal donations (mine to Aus. Red Cross) it would be useful to
> write to the Ambassador to urge that the United States, which takes such a
> dominant role in world affairs, has a responsibility to provide aid,
> physically and financial, on a scale as massive as this horrific disaster.
>
> I append below, an interesting, instead of heart-breaking report, from the
> affected region. It was posted to the American mailing list
> <naturerecordists> by Bernie Krause (Wild Sanctuary
> <>)
>
> Syd Curtis (Brisbane)
>
> *********************************************
>
> Tsunami Kills Few Animals in Sri Lanka
>
> By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE
> YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka
> expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of
> large-scale animal deaths from the tsunamis - indicating that animals
> may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.
>
> An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala
> National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife,
> including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.
>
> Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami swept into the park, uprooting
> trees and toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up
> on top of a huge tree - but the animals apparently were not harmed
> and may have sought out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne,
> whose Jetwing Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
>
> ``This is very interesting. I am finding bodies of humans, but I have
> yet to see a dead animal,'' said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park
> was destroyed.
>
> ``Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth sense,''
> Wijeyeratne said.
>
> Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200 Asian
> Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur
> monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration of leopards.
> The Yala reserve covers 391 square miles, but only 56 square miles
> are open to tourists.
>
> The human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty foreigners
> were among 200 people in Yala who were killed.
>
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