From red/dpa
Elephants are popular on the mostly Buddhist island state south of India, they are considered to be the embodiment of Buddha himself (symbol image).
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A man in Sri Lanka abuses an elephant and posts a video of it on Tiktok. Now he has to pay a fine of around 866 euros.
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From red/dpa
2/11/2022 – 3:43 p.m
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Colombo – A Sri Lankan man has been fined around 866 euros (200,000 rupees) for abusing an elephant in a Tiktok video. In the video, which has since been deleted, the 22-year-old filmed from a car how he scared the wild animal in a protected area by honking the horn and blinding it with flashing lights, officials from the wildlife authority told the German Press Agency on Friday. The elephant then hid behind a tree. A court in the north of the country pronounced the sentence on Thursday. Authorities were able to arrest the man this week after his video went viral on social media.
Elephants are popular on the predominantly Buddhist island state south of India, they are considered the embodiment of Buddha himself. They are protected, but their existence is also threatened and killing elephants is punishable by death. However, elephants themselves threaten the livelihoods of poor farmers. Because people are increasingly settling in their habitat. The animals destroy more and more fields and houses, whereupon their owners take revenge on them and kill them with firecrackers, poison or shots.
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