Yang Songhai, director of the Administrative Bureau of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Yunnan announced on October 28 that the number of wild elephants living in Xishuangbanna has increased from 179 back in the 1980s to the current 250.
Zhang Yaping, academician of the China Academy of Sciences (CAS) and also director of CAS's Kunming Institute of Zoology, explained that the Asian elephants found in the few areas of Xishuangbanna, Pu'er and Lincang in Yunnan, number no more than 300, and are considered wildlife under China's highest level of protection.
Today, the Asian elephant population in Xishuangbanna has resumed its growth, making up over 90% of the wild Asian elephant population in China, and their roaming area is expanding continuously.
By People's Daily Online
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