Posted on 06/02/2021 12:49:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A herd of 15 wild elephants was approaching the city of Kunming, the capital of south-west China's Yunnan province, on Wednesday (June 2), defying attempts to redirect them after a journey of several hundred kilometres from forests to the south.
The Asian elephants, which include three calves, originally lived in a nature reserve, according to the official Xinhua news agency, and have trekked for nearly 500km along highways and through fields of crops over the past months.
More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. They were within a few kilometres of the edges of Kunming, a city of some eight million people, on Wednesday afternoon, according to state television CCTV.
While it is unclear why the elephants are moving north, the Xinhua report said a decline in edible plants in forest habitats has put pressure on the animals, whose numbers have grown in Yunnan in recent decades.
Conflicts between villagers and elephants can emerge as they leave protected areas to enter villages and eat crops. Some 6.8 million yuan (S$1.4 million) of damage has been caused by this elephant herd, according to Xinhua.
Local governments in Yunnan, which borders Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, have used roadblocks and tonnes of food to try to shift the elephants' course over recent weeks, while evacuating residential areas.
Soon, they will “disappear”, and prices of Chinese medicinal elephant parts will drop drastically...
they’re probably some of our politicians that backstabbed trump...
Soon to be in the wet markets
Elephant Walk
Why did the elephant cross the road?
Because he wanted to and nobody was going to tell him otherwise.
Looks like elephant will be on their menu for some time - General Tso’s Elephant and Fried Rice?
the Huns are coming
Off to the “wet markets” with them.
Well, I'm no elephant expert, but it's most likely due to global warming or climate change. /s
Wild guess but the pads on the feet of elephants are very sensitive to vibrations. I expect a major earthquake soon in the region they just left.
They’re looking for Bill Cosby to stampede over.
Why can’t you go into the park between 2 and 3pm?
That’s when elephants are jumping out of trees.
Why are pigmy’s so short?
They went into the park between 2 and 3pm.
The city was a turn around for Hump pilots in the CBI Campaign.
Learn something new every day.
Did anyone think to ask them?
How do you stop an elephant from charging?
Take away his credit card!😂😀😁😃😄😅😆
Natives.
15 elephants, 3 of them calves, caused $1.4M in damage - traveling thru primitive villages? The Chinese might believe it but I don’t
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