Elephant Orphanage Pinnawala is one of the world famous places for conservation of Asian elephants. It is governing by the Department of National Zoological Gardens. Today this center provides the home for large number of orphaned elephants except for those are born at the orphanage. All the others are "motherless" elephants brought to the orphanage in very young age as victim of unknown mysteries of nature.
Our aim is to bring this center to be best place for conservation and breading of Asian elephant in the world. We have been successful up to greater extent. Modernization program has already been launched to enhance the existing facilities such as animal welfare, education & research, veterinary care and staff and visitor facilities.
To create one of the world's outstanding zoological institutions, that is a center of the excellence for conservation, research and education.
Resourceful conservation of animals by means of a learning achieved through the exhibition of species who were adopted with loving care.
- Conservation -
Keeping species for coordinated national and international captioned captive breeding programmers - Animal Welfare -
Do best for animals to keep them healthy, well fed condition in naturalized environments - Breading and Research -
Carry out conservation oriented scientific research programmes in the fields of zoology, veterinary etc - Education -
Enlighten people about animal world by direct and indirect ways of education. - Exhibition -
provide the visitors equal opportunities participate in high quality, valuable, unmemorable experience
