China is coaxing its wild elephants with bananas and drones to return to their protected habitat in southwest Yunnan province following a 1,300 km trek.
Wildlife protection officials told a press briefing the elephants safely crossed a bridge over the Yuan River, headed south towards a nature reserve administered by the city of Puer.
An emergency committee set up to handle the wild elephants used electric fences, laid corn trees as bait, and built artificial roads to ensure the elephants took the correct route.