Elephant 'dining area' to head off conflicts
China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-11 07:29
KUNMING - Southwest China's Yunnan province will build a "dining area" for wild Asian elephants, aiming to solve conflicts between the endangered animals and the area's residents.
The 51-hectare dining area will be located in a 137.5-hectare habitat for 18 wild Asian elephants in Menghai county, in Xishuangbanna's Dai autonomous prefecture, which also encompasses 13 villages where 35,000 people live.
The dining area will grow corn, sugar cane, bamboo and bananas. An elephant habitat reconstruction project will also be launched.
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