Elephant herd lingers outside Kunming
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A HERD of 15 wild Asian elephants continue to linger in the outskirts of southwestern City of Kunming, local authorities said yesterday.
The herd trekked another 12.1km in 24 hours as of 3:10pm on Saturday to reach Xiyang Yi Autonomous Township in Jinning District of Kunming, said the on-site command tracking the elephants. It said on Saturday it flew 14 drones to track the herd and mobilized 510 people and over 110 vehicles to block roads and guide the migration toward the southwest.
The elephants traveled approximately 500km from their forest home in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture before reaching Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, on Wednesday.
According to the latest census, Kunming has a population of 8.46 million.
For over a month, authorities have sent police to escort the herd, evacuated roads to facilitate their passage and used food to distract them from entering densely populated areas.
Asian elephants are under A-level state protection in China, and are mostly found in Yunnan. Thanks to enhanced protection, the wild elephant population in the province has grown to about 300, up from 193 in the 1980s.
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