摘要
A national park for Asian elephants is being developed in Yunnan Province.Will it help solve the tension between elephant survival and livelihoods?In mid-August 2021,a group of Asian elephants returned to their habitat in the south of Yunnan Province,after a 1,500-kilometer journey to the north of the province which started in March 2020.Now Yunnan is accelerating the designation of a national Asian elephant park,according to a report by the Yunnan Daily on August 1l.The report came a day before World Elephant Day,which was created in 2012 by Canadian filmmaker Patricia Sims,director of the award-winning film about human-elephant relations,When the Elephants Were Young and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation of Thailand,an initiative of Queen Sirikit of Thailand to improve awareness of elephant protection worldwide.
