China's migrating elephant herd travels southwards

The herd is at a location of a relatively high altitude, where telecommunication signal is poor, which has added to the difficulty of monitoring the herd, according to the headquarters in charge of monitoring the elephants' migration.

A male elephant, which strayed 17 days ago, is now 30 km away in Jinning district in Kunming, the provincial capital.

Five new experts have joined the expert team at the headquarters to help work on plans to guide the elephants' migration.

On Tuesday, a total of 210 people were mobilized for the work, and 4,774 local residents were evacuated.