It’s a offence to use drawn’s to film in SRI lanka without permission from The civil aviation authority. However, there are many who don’t adhere to this rule.
Recently the Anuradapra Magistrate Nalaka Sanjeewa Wijesooriya ordered the Police to file a case against an individual who used a 750-gram high-tech drawn camera to film the wild elephant Agbo. I ts reported that the Agbo was disturbed when the drawan started hovering around him.
Flamingos: Drawn filming has become a serious issue in mannar where migratory birds including thousands of birds flock to the Vankalei sanctuary.
The annual flamingo migration attracts professional photographers and wildlife enthusiasts to the Mannar wetland and lately drawn filming has become popular.
“When these drones fly just a few meters above the flamingos with the whirring sound of rotors, the birds often treat the noise as an aerial predator and would take off in great anxiety,” said Sampath Seneviratne of the University of Colombo, who studies migratory birds in the area.
If these disturbances continue, he said, the birds may move to more remote areas of the wetland, or perhaps avoid the site entirely.
