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Wired website. —— brian and his colleagues. let's go to china now, for an update on a story that's been grabbing attention inside and outside china. it's all about this wandering herd of chinese elephants — they've travelled a vast distance in the south of china over the last 15 months. just having a snooze there. it's all thought to have begun in a nature reserve near china's border with myanmar and laos, where the herd originated. they travelled north, passing through pu'er in yunnan province in july last year. the herd then crossed almost 500 km before, last week, reaching a place cal...

Elephant herd shuns downtown Kunming 1 2021-06-07 08:18:49China Daily Editor : Li Yan ECNS App Download A herd of wild elephants strolls through a village in Yuxi, Yunnan province, on Wednesday. (MENG ZHUBIN/FOR CHINA DAILY) Fifteen wild Asian elephants that left their habitat in Xishuangbanna, in Southwest China's Yunnan province, changed direction from north to northwest and then to south on Sunday, steering clear of the provincial capital Kunming's downtown without causing disturbances. As of Sunday morning, the herd, including two baby elephants, had moved...

The group strayed from its natural habitat and set out on a journey through farms, villages and rivers.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Fifteen wild Asian elephants that left their habitat in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Yunnan province have so far not caused any trouble in the provincial capital, Kunming, thanks to local authorities' contingency measures.

Forest police in neighboring Yuxi, where the herd was on Wednesday, said the city is still on high alert for the possible return of the elephants.The garden is renowned for its diversity of species, with 13,000 varieties of wild plants, of which 1,350 are endangered.