A video on May 27 recorded a herd of 15 wild elephants wandering through Yuxi city in Eshan county, Yunnan Province. Local residents were forced to leave their homes as the herd roamed through the villages and ate crops.
The herd, which has been migrating northward since April this year, comes from Mengyanzi Nature Reserve in Xishuangbanna, in the southwest corner of Yunnan, and has visited Pu’er and Honghe. On May 31, it finally arrived near Baitu village in the Hongta district of Yuxi city, 31 miles from Jinning district in Kunming. They have journeyed northward almost 310 miles.
