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.
Beijing, Aug 10
Authorities in China's Yunnan province have evacuated more than 150,000 residents to avoid coming in contact with the migrating elephant herd, a local official said.
The herd of 14
Fourteen wild elephants are heading south towards their protected habitat in southwest China's Yunnan province following a 1,300-km (807-mile) trek that captured the public's imagination, provincial officials said late on Monday.