A barricade of heavy trucks is the latest tactic – to try and guide a rogue herd of elephants away from populated areas in southwest China.
The 15 Asian elephants – a protected species – have been on an epic journey since wandering out of a national park in Yunnan province months ago.
Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports.
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Unfortunately Elephants don’t recognise land borders and it’s up to humans to realise that we have to co exist with these animals, rumour has it that they are going to protest and storm Tiananmen Square , power to the Elephants!!!
Elephants are smart. When mistreated they become angry and aggressive. There is a reason for everything they do
The 5G wifi in the north, near the cities is better 😉
@Moderator you think that drives the elephant’s mad it may be because every time I hold my 5G phone up to my head instead of using speaker I feel my head throbbing
The fact that this story has been going on for so long is testimony to the peoples’ patience. Some other countries would just put them to sleep, move them back to the jungles and call it a day.
Yep
There’s even a video of all the elephants lying down to rest / sleep. That’s a testament to how safe the elephants are
This might work with one or two elephants, but that’s a herd of 15. It’s pretty much impossible to tranquillize them simultaneously, not to mention that the process could kill them.
The global uproar that wuld cause now is far more expensive and destructive then the elephants…
@Knight Hammer
That’s the point , in most places people would have just killed the elephants and got on with their lives most people aren’t willing to lose his livelyhood for animals even endangered ones
Animals have a sense of disasters. God forbid!
That’s what I’m thinking too.
Elephant Gang! 🤟🏼🤟🏼🐘🐘
Truck Gang! 🤟🏼🤟🏼🚚🚚
if anyone touches those elephants, the san diego ufo fleet wipes out 3 cities at random
India, Shri Lanka, Thailand, Laos Cambodia: first time?
They just want to take a worlk on the pack leave them alone
Well they are smart enough to migrate to China! Chinese effort to fight polution has good results. The grass is greener in China seemingly 😉
i just got off a elephant in far cry 4 🤣 if the elephants attack like they do in the game then its hella unsafe down there lol
I like turtles.
Elephant habits do not like forests.
U dont believe in God but u surely believe in nature .. thats what happens when u spy on ur God
Just for the record, i am not mentioning floods ..
News: Nobody knows where these elephants are going.
**1 month later**
News: This just in. Elephants 🐘🐘🐘 have just captured the Chinese capital Beijing and overthrown the Chinese Communist Party 🇨🇳.
You mean to tell me China a place where they eat everything. Hasn’t started eating the elephants?
Not everything. Actually Chinese won’t eat cow urine and japanese radiative fishes lol
I give credit to Chinese authorities for not killing the elephants.
they are protected by law. like panda.
@MadLightsProduction those are good laws.
@艹尼玛 what does that mean.
@Rational Thinker WE DONT EAT EVERYTHING
@艹尼玛 I never said that.
In India they would have fed it a firecracker and let it die of pain.
Yeah people don’t compliment the villagers enough. That’s what I’ve been saying.
It’s a good lesson to young generation in China, knows better to live harmony with wild.
Where is the ivory of our ancestors? And our nephew the rhino will be looking for the grinded remains of his horn in this area of global tales about cheap labor, fierce dragons, and high global investment profits.
Asian grandma elephants don’t have tusks
@Sudhakar Swain The tusks of female Asian are small, but I will adapt the text.
When I’m watching these elephants approaching my hometown Kunming, I can’t resist thinking of a joke I used to tell my new friends met in big cities like Shanghai or Beijing: “Back in my hometown, we actually ride elephant to go to school.”
Most of these friends, who had never been to my town, didn’t think it’s a joke and gave me an admiring “wahoo!”
That was some 20 years ago. People from even within the same country are so lack of understanding, even some common sense, of what’s happening on the other side of their country. They didn’t know that my hometown had the same population of Melbourne today, and even had an airplane company that flies over twenty 737 and later 767 in the 1990’s. There were indeed elephants in my province, but all in the reserves hundreds miles away.
Even animals in China know that they are living under a lunatic Chinese government.
why saying like this? you know well of China? the elephants were treated well along their trip, the government respect their will to go arround and provide food for them, also make people safe. it’s a very happy and funny matter in China, the country do great efforts to the environment, you can check the data of decreasing area of desert in China, and the data of decreasing poverty people. the government just lead their people and the whole environment include animals to a better life, and if these make you unhappy, then I JUST TOLD YOU AND YOUR KIND, NOTHING CAN STOP CHINA TO BECOME GREAT AGAIN IN THE PLANET. but if you can remark things base on a objective and good vision of humanity, believe and be kind/respect to the people who are honest and diligent, do hard work to change their own life, we still can be friends and make the world better together. I ensure you most of Chinese have the same view like me.
I feel sorry for the farmers but at the same time the elephants too, we human have taken over their territory and reduce their habitat and am glad the chinese people did not simply shoot these beautiful elephants, there is much wild elephants left in asia.
The elephants are hungry
Elephant family would also like to roam the earth, go on holidays, enjoy the scenery…
hope CHINA government protect and guide these elephants to an appropriate habitat
Al Jazeera is maliciously creating and disseminating fake news. The fact is that this group of elephants was originally in a nature reserve. It is precisely because of China’s protection of the reserve that the number of elephants inside has doubled in 10 years (175-300 ) Elephants, so the sanctuary is not enough to guarantee their food supply and range of activities! Therefore, some elephants leave the reserve to find a new habitat!
I hope they are pushed back into their reserve, safely
KM Hemmans The Youtuber
Animal migration are typically triggered by survival instincts. what danger is brewing in southern China ? War in Myanmar probably .
Ganesh has returned with the Panchen Lama
The patience of Chinese authority how they are dealing with these elephants is quite commendable, did not expect this from china but then any one can surprise, as one Indian scripture says ” Should not be surprised by extra ordinarily good people anywhere”.
Because the media portrays China’s badsides mostly.
I think that’s normal in any country. The earth is shared by humans and animals.They were just looking for food and didn’t hurt anyone. So there’s no need to intervene with them. If the Chinese government does not do so, he will be criticized by the Chinese people.
Protect against global warming for sure
Only Al Jazeera call this is a chaos, why？
Yeah I don’t get it as well even Chinese media only said elephant marches and causing some damage, no causalities or chaos so far. Hence even the people loves it the lady interviewed was kinda happy and thrilled by the elephants present but somehow this newsreel cutted out that part
They are causing happiness.
Good going Elephants crush the dragon
“wild” Elephants….. just doing what feels natural to them,looking for a better place to live.
Many Asean friend is following the news, it’s a true news, not BBC news.
why havent they been eaten already?
China invade their places so the elephants take revenge
We western countries should teach Asian countries the idea of animal protection. It is our duty to stop them from polluting the earth. Hope our environment will be a better place to live. The world is ONE. 🌎
What a joke!
Western hunters killed the most elephants and other animals in Africa and Asia. Now they say they should teach Asian countries the idea of animal protection.
This is so ridiculous!
Wild terrorist continues bombing in Middle East countries
**** PUT COVID VACCINE IN ELEPHANT and TRACK THEM****
Big deal humans destroy everything
Fake reporting
I don’t like the title. China protects wildlife and environment. Chinese are nice and they care for wild lives. They live harmoniously with wildlife and Give each other space for living.
That’s a lie ,There’s videos of you Chinese beating raccoons and cutting off their feet while still alive and then hanging them,Also there are videos of cats being boiled and skinned alive and dogs done the same way.
@robert justus racist, just because some people do it doesn’t mean the whole nation do it. Before you say it’s a lie. Google is free. If you searched it China is number 1 on reforestation and planting trees than any other nation.
you are stupid，我不否认有些人会虐待动物，但是虐待动物在中国社会是会受到舆论谴责的（蟑螂除外）。中国人很喜欢可爱的动物的，如果你在bilibili可以看到很多可爱的动物视频都有很高的播放量。
@James Khant You must be a Democrat ,As the Democrats favorite word is”racist”
@robert justus Why are you trying to change the tophic?
Trumps hit squad!
If this was in US, the cowboys would have shot all of them with tranquilizers and drag them back to their reservation like what they did to the natives…
Well, stop encroaching on their land.
Ai Jazeera is maliciously creating fake news. The truth is that this group of elephants were originally in a natural reserve. It is precisely because of China’s protection that the elephants had doubled their amount in 10 years (175-300) Elephants. So the sanctuary is not enough to guaranteed their food, supply and activities. Therefore, some elephants leave the reserve to find a new habitat. It’s not because of “deforestation”.
Source: Google.
Elephants: yeh, free buffet tour!
Now that’s rich. Some elephants go for a walk and it’s chaos. Humans feel entitled to destroy the whole world. It might be time for another flood. Finish the job the time.
AJ needs to some homework before reporting, it’s a province not a state, there’s no big scale of deforestation in Yunnan province which threaten their habitants.
So whats the difference between a state and a province??
@vegan ox you can Google it
Why stupid idiots in Africa dont protect animals all they do is kill them every day.
It would be interesting if they ended up creating a new colony far from their origins. I, too, commend China for protecting the herd, and only minimally intervening in their journey.
Elephants migrate from place to place…hundreds of miles…for different foods n nutrients etc…especially when seasons change…n have regular routes
So when an elephant eats, they call it damage – people on the other hand, “harvest” resources.
DW has always a lot of bias with China. When Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports, “A barricade of heavy trucks is the latest tactic – to try and guide a rogue herd of elephants away from populated areas in southwest China. The 15 Asian elephants – a protected species – have been on an epic journey since wandering out of a national park in Yunnan province months ago.” DW reports, ” Authorities are in a flurry trying to keep them away from populated areas.” LOL
They r looking for the Noah ark. Which is somewhere in China according to the movie 2012 xD
BBC：China’s genocide of elephants forced the herds to migrate
When china treats even its wild elephants so gently how come it gets accused of human genocide in Xinjiang ???
Magnificent Creatures
What chaos ?
Absolutely Beautiful
Oh god save these adorable beasts, No humans try their flesh , bcoz its China.
They might go to sichuan where pandas live.
Panda: out! Out!! You furless long nosed animal
Elephant: i came to try bamboos, you selfish
They are finding a safe place it seems… Maybe a disaster on the way…
Elephants: Guys gear up we’re going for a long ride, we will crush everything whatever comes on our way…
They are sleeping and waiting for the male member rejoining
Oh the irony… China is the biggest buyer’s of black market elephant products….and here’s a herd of elephants rooming across there country….the hippocracy never end with these guys!!!.🤔
Buying ivory and wildlife fur in China is a very, very serious crime. I don’t understand the black market and I can confirm that there are no ivory products in the Chinese market. If you have information shows that anyone in China has ivory products, you can report him. The government offers rewards to informants.
Three things not to do in China. First: drug trafficking. No matter what nationality you are, you will be sentenced to death. Not long ago, some Canadians came to China to sell drugs and were eventually executed. The Canadian Prime Minister’s plea for mercy was of no use. Second: selling guns, possibly life in prison. Third: killing wild animals, such as tigers, pandas and elephants, is punishable by up to life imprisonment.
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just stop killing all the elements in Africa for ivory
Alzazeera continues biased and cheats
They said we are Tired of staying in the bushes so they want to go out see the city light 🐘🐘🐘🐘😂😂😂😂!!!!!
GIVE THEM SPACE!!! China’s population needs to be reduced!!!!
Please Don’t hurts them😭
Leave them wherever they wanna go
Poor Elephant……..
From the river to the sea
PALESTINE will be FREE
FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇦🇫🇵🇸💪❤☝️🤲😊
I’m surprised they haven’t eaten all of them
Nope, I China we consider the ones who eat elephants as barbarians.
Destination is known and elephants are safe, because officials force chinese people not to hurt them(based on your attitude in this “news”).Their migration was watched by millions in China social media. By the way, did you get permission to use CGTN interview clip?
Please Chinese don’t kill and eat those elephants
Hopefully they go and knock down the walls to the prison they are keeping the uighurs
They need food and water as these majestic beings journey through.
i dont think they are causing chaos they are looking for a new home let them they have the right.
When you try to mess with nature, it tends to mess back
The reality is that there were 200 elephants in the area where they lived, now there are 300, and they can no longer feed themselves, so they have to look for a new habitat.
Chinese and local authorities are protecting these elephants!
Every town the elephant passing by, the people left fruit and corns as food to the elephant on the road, to feed them, and leave them alone. Government cleans space/roads and stops people who got too close to the elephants. They keep people away at least a few km away from the elephant path.
Drivers have been ordered to stop the main road to stop elephants go to a very crowded city center area, to avoid confrontation with humans, and to redirect them to go to the mountain areas.
The Elephant family destroyed many agricultural lands and make them flat. The government will pay the damage fees to the farmers.
A small elephant got drunk by drink some alcohol in a family farmhouse, a day later he catches up with the elephant family.
The whole of China is watching and we are very happy, excited, curious to see where it heading to. We also concerned why and what make elephant migrate, scientists are trying to figure out the reason, and the government is protecting its path!
People are highly aware of the protection of animals and have lots of love for them.
They also feel empathy that small elephants have to do such a long journey at such a young age with the whole family.
Elephants are the stars in China now!
They are going to Beijing. 😁
So they are covering that elephants destroying is affecting people’s lives . What about the politicians who destroy these same lands for their lavish properties and selfish motives. Why dont news channels focus on such news .
They migrate to billionaire’s factory
Just a handful of explanations for this:
1. Chemical Pollution of their habitat.
2. Gigahertz Airwave Technology.
3. Impending Natural Disaster.
4. Shortage.
5. Tragic Memory
Why haven’t they been eaten up yet?
So China protects Asian elephants, but China pays tons of money to kill African elephants for their tusks? I understand that only a small portion of Asian male elephants have tusks, but this makes no sense to me smh….. As if they protect their own, but are more than happy and willing to poach from Africa….
CHINA BOASTS.THEY CANNOT MOVE THEM.ONLY BOAST.SLEEPY CHINESE PREDIDENT IS DREAMING THE LEAKAGE OF COVID VIRUS FROM THE LAB.
Let’s them be safe… Please🙏
মর শালারা
Elephant are more safer than eighurs in china.
I guess they hate quarantine.
too……😂😂😂
Mighty Hindu elephants versus flop chinese Dragon🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏
The villagers seem happy. Such kind people
Its elephants’ day out.
Local environmental department need to check why they are moving from natural habitat. They should be alert for natural calamities like earthquake, flood, avalanche. Because animals and birds are sensitive to sense such things
Kerala has good police department to catch elephants
The Elephants are spreading Love in the World
Nature’s turn to protest ! Beautiful elephants though !
1 millions dollars of crop damaged, buildings and property damaged, cost of surveillance and truck bridges, still keeping em safe, well-done China