Asian elephant habitat shrinks almost two-thirds

Video captured by China’s CCTV on June 7, 2021, shows elephants from a herd that wandered 500km north from their natural habitat, resting in a forest near Kunming, in China’s southwest Yunnan province.

Habitats suitable for elephants in Asia have shrunk by almost two-thirds over the past three centuries, according to a new study.

It equates to a drop of 3.3 million square kilometres (1.27 million square miles), similar to the size of India, since 1700.