The northward movement of Yunnan elephant group enters Shiping County of Honghe Prefecture and returns to Xishuangbanna
China News Service, Kunming, July 10 (Reporter Hu Yuanhang) The provincial headquarters of Asian elephant safety precautions for the northward movement of Yunnan Province reported on the evening of the 10th that from 17:00 on July 9 to 17:00 on July 10, the overall direction of the elephant herd Moving 10.5 kilometers to the southeast, it entered Longwu Town, Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture at 20:20 on July 9.
The elephant group is within the monitoring range, and the human elephant is safe.
Back to Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, the outlier is in good condition.
The picture shows the elephant group monitored.
Photo courtesy of Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade
The provincial headquarters organizes drone monitoring teams, emergency response teams, and Asian elephant experts to transfer in a timely manner to seamlessly connect and safely transition related work; organize Yuxi City and Honghe Prefecture to unify their thinking, coordinate and cooperate, and study and formulate routes to assist the elephants in relocation Plan, work together to deploy defenses, do a good job in implementing the relocation assistance plan, and ensure the safety of humans.
The Honghe Field Headquarters organized an on-site deployment meeting, issued the implementation plan for the protection and relocation of the Asian elephants moving north, clarified the organization and leadership, task division and work system, and established a "upper and lower coordination, professional and orderly, front-to-back linkage" working mechanism; Shiping County is required to strengthen tracking and monitoring and personnel management to strictly prevent human-elephant conflicts.
The picture shows the elephant group monitored.
Photo courtesy of Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade
The Xinping and Shiping site headquarters operated simultaneously. A total of 346 emergency response personnel and police forces were deployed that day, 11 muck trucks, 79 emergency vehicles, and 23 drones were dispatched. 725 households with 2259 people were evacuated and fed to elephant food. 2 tons, 208 people were advised to return 85 vehicles.
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