A Sri Lankan boy collects flowers in a lake at the boundary of a wildlife sanctuary in Udawalawe National Park on July 7, 2017. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





In this picture taken July 1, 2017 Sri Lankan stilt fishermen work on their poles in the southern town of Galle. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





In this July 5, 2016 file photo, a Sri Lankan female mahout and her husband walk with their tamed elephant across a waterway in Baduraliya, a village outside Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s government says it is ready to forgive the owners of poached elephants and give them a chance to apply for an elephant license provided they can prove in court that they did not know the animals that were confiscated from them had been illegally captured from the wild. Though capturing wild elephants has been banned for decades and registration records indicate there should be only 127 elephants in captivity, most of them older, young elephants are a common sight in the country's 400 or so Buddhist religious processions and traditional ceremonies every year. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Commuters travel to work by train in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 13, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





Wild elephants, including a tusker (C), rummage through garbage dumped at an open ground in the village of Digampathana in north- central Sri Lanka on August 19, 2017. Sri Lanka has banned the dumping of garbage at open fields and near wildlife reserves, but the practice continues. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





A monk plays a traditional musical instrument as he walks along a street in the early morning in Colombo, Sri Lanka May 16, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A group of novice Buddhist monks take selfies during a religious ceremony at a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 28, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A group of tourists travel by elephant along a main road, as the Sigiriya rock fortress is seen in the background in Dambulla, Sri Lanka August 19, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A group of tourists travel on a traditional bullock cart along a main road in Dambulla, Sri Lanka August 19, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A monkey sits on top of the Jetavanaramaya stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka on September 26, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A mahout (an elephant keeper) walks with an elephant during a daily swim in a River at Pinnawal elephant orphanage near Pinnawala village in Rambukkana, Sri Lanka October 5, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





In this May 19, 2015 file photo, Sri Lankan police officers march with a ceremonially dressed elephant calf during a Victory Day parade in Matara, about 165 kilometers (103 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Nishan Priyantha/AP Photo)





A goat sits inside a body part of a three-wheeler in a Muslim village in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 13, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A Muslim boy feeds pigeons after Friday prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka June 16, 2017. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





In this October 20, 2016 file photo, Sri Lankan traditional dancers escort a tusker known as “Nadungamuwe Tusker”, who is famous for carrying the sacred tooth relic of the temple of tooth during its annual procession, during a felicitation to the animal for his services to Buddhist temple processions in Kirindiwela village, outside Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A Sri Lankan boy holds a food packet as he wades through a flooded street in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Sri Lankan rescuers pulled out more bodies under enormous mudslides on Sunday as the death toll climbed to 146 with 112 others missing. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A Sri Lankan public health official,left, points out Mosquito lava in a bottle during a Dengue fever irradiation work in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst dengue outbreak with more than 200 people killed and 76,000 infected this year. Alarmed by the scale of disease, the island nation has deployed hundreds of soldiers and police officers to clear away rotting garbage, stagnant water pools and other potential mosquito-breeding grounds. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Passengers travel in a train in Colombo on September 19, 2017. Due to its affordability, train travel is a popular mode of transport in this nation of 20 million people. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





In this February 14, 2014 file photo, a domesticated elephant brought for an annual Buddhist temple festival drinks waters from a tank in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)