BEIJING A herd of 15 wild elephants was approaching the city of Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, on Wednesday, defying attempts to…
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Several wild elephants walk to Chinese city after 500km journey
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Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
A herd of 15 wild elephants is nearing China s Kunming city on Wednesday, defying attempts to redirect them after a journey of several hundred kilometres from forests to the south.
The group of Asian elephants, which includes three calves, originally lived in a nature reserve, according to the official
Xinhua, and has trekked for nearly 500km along highways and through fields of crops over the past months.
They were within a few kilometres of the edges of Kunming, a city of some 8 million, on the afternoon of June 2, according to state television