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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.
Reporting from Xishuangbanna, China — The love between man and elephant does not come easily. Just ask villagers in this tropical swath of southwestern China, where pachyderms gobble up crops ...
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 ...
It’s a wildlife journey that has captivated the globe: A herd of 15 rogue elephants wandering over 300 miles from their home in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, near China’s border with ...
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 ...
Now, they will be broken and put on display for tourists in China. By the end of this month, as more and more experts weigh in on the deep trauma suffered by captured elephants, a treaty governing ...
BEIJING — A herd of 15 wild elephants that walked 300 miles from a nature reserve in China’s mountainous southwest were approaching the major city of Kunming on Wednesday as authorities rushed ...
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 ...
As China prepares to impose a domestic ban on the ivory trade, a new report has found that the price of raw ivory there is plummeting. It's good news for Africa's elephants, which have been ...
The elephants have traveled more than 500 kilometers (311 miles) and left a trail of destruction in their wake, according to China's state news agency Xinhua. Xinhua/Sipa ...
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