They rested for the day, but a herd of 15 wild elephants found in China hit the road again after heavy rain delayed their journey. The Chinese authorities captured him with the help of drone The group sleeps in a forest clearing on the outskirts of the city of Kunming in southwestern China before resuming the crossing on Tuesday, June 8.
The group of pachyderms, which includes three cubs, has already covered 500 kilometers. They have passed through fields, villages and cities of millions of residents since leaving the protected area in Xishuangbanna, bordering Laos and Burma, in April 2020. The reason for the transition is not clear, and along the way the elephants have already destroyed the crops in the vicinity of the villages. On Monday, a team of hundreds of professionals tried to use trucks to move them out of human-occupied areas and prevent further property damage. Previous attempts to get them back were unsuccessful, but after 15 months the herd appears to be returning home to Mengyangzi Wildlife Sanctuary in Xishuangbanna.
Plantations of bananas, tea, rubber and raw materials used in Chinese medicine occupied the place where the Xishuangbanna rainforest once grew. habitat protected from the last habitat of elephants in China, the community is gradually shrinking. Conversely, conservation efforts in Yunnan province have led to an increase in the number of Asian elephants, putting more pressure on the resources available.
