from the Sri Lanka Sunday Observer- A team of foreigners, belonging to a group called Exo-Terra, have been arrested by officers of Department of Wildlife Conservation, with amphibians and lizards prevalent in Kalpitiya on Saturday morning, Department sources said.

(story is very fresh and still developing, but this doesn't sound like good news)

Check out the full story at TheReptileReport.com

Australian newspaper take on the story- also at TRR