A group of artists from southwest China's Yunnan recently produced a set of paper cuttings depicting stories behind a herd of 15 wild Asian elephants that have recently been roaming around in the region in a reapproach into their traditional habitat. After hearing the wonderful news that all of these Asian elephants migrating northward had returned safely back to their habitat, Wang Zhongde, vice chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Chinese Culture Promotion Society, took the lead in creating the set of paper-cut works.
On the evening of August 8, 14 wild elephants which had been migrating northward in southwest China’s Yunnan province crossed the Yuanjiang River safely and continued to head south, according to a press conference held recently in Kunming city, capital city of Yunnan. The elephant herd is now in a wood near Honghe subdistrict, Yuanjiang county, Yuxi city of Yunnan, which is 26 kilometers away from Mojiang county, Pu’er city of the province.
Wild Asian elephants are well protected in the Wild Elephant Valley scenic spot, a paradise frequented by the species, in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southwest China’s Yunnan province. Here we present several stories about some of the wild animals found in the valley, many having funny and cute nicknames.
Asian elephants, once driven to the brink of extinction in the 1990s in China, have seen their population grow and their habitat expand, thanks to the increasing conservation efforts of the country over the past three decades. The population of wild Asian elephants, mostly found in southwest China’s Yunnan province, has risen from about 150 to nearly 300 in about 30 years.
