In a groundbreaking first in China, a nonprofit organization has brought a public interest lawsuit against a company operating elephant shows in the southwestern Yunnan province. Earlier this month, ...

In a proactive move to bolster the protection of Asian elephants and enhance biodiversity conservation, a training program was launched in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, with ...

Tourists in Yunnan, China, got a taste of an elephant's "Hulk smash" when one wandered out onto a main road and wreaked havoc on 15 parked cars. According to local news outlets, the male elephant ...

BEIJING -- One member of a group of elephants that left a nature reserve and wandered close to cities in China's southwest has been tranquilized and returned to the reserve after leaving the herd. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — A male Asian elephant that had separated from a herd that has been wandering southwest China for more than a a year has been anaesthetized and returned to its nature reserve. The lone ...

Local authorities in southwestern Yunnan province have opened a massive food bank for the region’s elephants to deter them from foraging and to reduce conflicts between the pachyderms and people. The ...

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On October 11, the first phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on biological diversity (COP15) was opened in Kunming, Yunnan, ...

July 8 (UPI) --A male elephant once part of an itinerant herd of pachyderms from southern Yunnan Province in China was tranquilized and returned to its native habitat, provincial authorities said. The ...

June 2 (UPI) --A herd of 15 Asian elephants that have trekked more than 300 miles across China approached a large city in the province of Yunnan on Wednesday. While the elephants have captivated the ...

The calf was from a different herd than the wandering group that has been getting a lot of media attention lately. A baby elephant was rescued in southwest China after its family abandoned it.

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BEIJING -- One member of a group of elephants that left a nature reserve and wandered close to cities in China's southwest has been tranquilized and returned to the reserve after leaving the herd. The ...