China’s wandering elephants become global stars

A migrating herd of elephants graze near Shuanghe Township, Jinning District of Kunming city in south-western China’s Yunnan Province (Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade via AP)

A herd of wandering elephants in China have become international stars.

Major global media are chronicling the herd’s more than year-long, 500-kilometre (300-mile) trek from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous south-west Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital Kunming.