Mercantile Investments extends its service to save wildlife

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As a responsible organisation that extends its support and duty towards wildlife conservation, Mercantile Investments recently made a significant contribution to the Department of Wildlife Conservation in resolving conflicts between humans and leopards in the mountainous region of Sri Lanka.

Accordingly, in collaboration with the Center for Eco-Cultural Studies, Mercantile Investments has provided the Department of Wildlife Conservation a leopard emergency care and temporary holding facility/enclosure and a rescue trap and an emergency transport cage as a part of the proposed facilitation program for human-life conflict resolution in the mountainous region of Sri Lanka.

The Wildlife Conservation Department uses this enclosure to monitor the health of trapped leopards prior to releasing them to emergency treatment or rehabilitation camps. Donated to the Randenigala Minipe Veterinary Surgery Office and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, the enclosure is designed to treat simultaneously two leopards or three leopards in an emergency.

The other rescue trap/emergency transport cage provided by Mercantile Investments was handed over to the Emergency Rescue Unit of the Nallathanniya Wildlife Conservation Office.

Despite the current economic situation in the country, Mercantile Investments, which continues to fulfill its social welfare responsibilities, will be able to save endangered species and reduce the impact on people’s lives.