秦汉以来中国亚洲象的分布与变迁

The Distribution and Changes of Chinese Asian Elephants since Qin and Han Dynasties

秦汉以来,我国野生亚洲象主要分布在南岭以南的广东、广西两省和福建省的东南角,以及云南省的南部和西部的部分地区。明清时期,其数量和分布区迅速缩小,这与人类的捕杀和栖息地的破坏关系甚大,其中的农业开发、砍伐森林所导致的栖息地破坏是根本原因。

The Chinese Asian elephants is distributed mainly over Guangdong,Guangxi,southeast Fujian,west and south parts of Yunnan.Because of human＇s hunting and habitat fragmentation,the quantity and distribution were rapidly reduced in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,and the fundamental cause of this is agriculture development and habitat destruction.