BEIJING--Already famous at home, China’s wandering elephants are now becoming international stars. Major global media are chronicling the herd’s more than yearlong, 500-kilometer trek from ...

One of China’s wandering elephants has finally made it home. The herd of wild Asian elephants shot to fame last month while embarking on an epic journey through southwestern China.

The elephants have roamed 300 miles across southern China, in the longest movement recorded in the country by the animals. Researchers are mystified. By Vivian Wang Maybe they’re looking for ...

For more than a week, China has been gripped by a new internet sensation: a herd of 15 marauding elephants, who are large, lost and wrecking havoc in the country’s southwest. Millions have tuned ...

No one knows where they are going or why. Since March 2020, a family of wild elephants in southwest China has trekked more than 300 miles, traveling north through fields, highways, villages and towns.

In this aerial file photo taken May 28, 2021, and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a herd of wild Asian elephants walks in E'shan county in southwestern China's Yunnan Province. A herd of ...

The majority of the ivory in China comes from elephant poachers who sell the animal’s tusks on the black market for huge amounts of money. While ivory is used in a number of nations across the ...

Activists say China's growing purchasing power is driving global demand for products from vulnerable animals, everything from elephant ivory to rhino horn. Two huge stone lions stood sentinel ...

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