Sam Ariarathna

Suddenly the mother was calling the other members of the herd

to protect the baby.

That's what we saw.

So it was like a mission, a mission on protecting their baby.

The golden jackals.

Yes.

Before 10 years ago, there were lots of golden jackals around our country and as well as in the national parks.

We had a pack of golden jackals in every village.

It acted as the primary predator for many species of animals.

We consider them as pests now, especially when it comes to the Indian peafowls, the peacocks.

Jackals are the primary predator of them because they were eating their eggs.

And of course, it was a primary predator of the so-called endemic talk macaque monkey.

Population has grown up and now they consider that as pest.

But before 10 years ago, we had lots of jackals.

What we see is the climate change.

Main issue behind that is the climate change and the overuse of pesticides, the agrochemicals.

Because the jackals eating the crabs and there was an outbreak in

the rabies virus before five years ago that badly affected on the jackals population and it breached the balance now and of course as you mentioned about that water buffaloes water buffalo population is also getting really high because they don't have predators to control the amount enough predators the only predator it can actually as a predator you see the

leopard so we don't have that much of leopards to control the amount of water buffalo so we have to manually control them call them call them or we have to take the conservation actions

As a country in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the climate change is what causing this kind of trouble.