“Among the victims of a long ago era of climate change was the Stegodon Orientalis. It was a saber-toothed elephant that roamed Asia and Africa during the mid-Pleistocene Period. A complete skeleton of this long extinct species has been found in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. Soon after the discovery last year, the remains proved to be the largest skeleton of the species ever found.” – CCTV International

“Asia’s elephants once roamed across nine million square kilometres of forests from the Iranian coast to the Indian subcontinent, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and China. Now extinct in west Asia, Java and most of China, about 40,000 to 50,000 remain in pockets of forest in 13 states.” – Reuters

“China, one of the world’s largest traders in illegal ivory, is vying to buy up South Africa’s massive elephant ivory stock which has built up over several years as the result of a worldwide ban.” – IOL

“Jeremy McGill nearly died last month while photographing wild elephants in China. He was at a nature preserve when an elephant picked him up with its trunk and threw him in the air.” – WSMV Nashville

“China and Laos reached an agreement to protect wild endangered Asian Elephants that live along the border between the two countries, during their annual meeting, held currently in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Xinhua reported yesterday.” – china.org.cn

“An elephant has killed a man in a Chinese nature reserve where an American tourist was earlier severely injured, the state news agency Xinhua said.” – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

“An American tourist was seriously injured after he was apparently attacked by wild Asian elephants roaming in a nature reserve in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Thursday, officials confirmed on Sunday.” – Xinhua

“Hundreds of actors and their pachyderm steeds re-enacted the wartime tactics of centuries ago as part of Thailand’s 47th annual Elephant Roundup over the weekend.” – The China Post

“The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates wild populations which are scattered throughout India, Nepal, Indonesia, China and a few other countries is between 25,600 to 32,750 individuals. That represents a stark decline over the last few decades and the results of habitat loss due to increased agriculture and related shootings as well as some ivory poaching.” – The Student Operated Press

“A male elephant from southwest China’s Yunnan Province has been cured of its addiction to drugs and will soon return to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest in Yunnan.” – China.Org

“Discovery Channel Asia organized yesterday a sneak preview of a new documentary, entitled “Kingdom of the Elephants” which sheds light on the close relationship between elephants and humans in Northern Thailand.” – The China Post

“Baby elephant Migara, a gift of friendship from Sri Lanka to China in February this year, celebrated his sixth birthday at the Beijing Zoo Saturday.” – People’s Daily Online

“Kaohsiung City’s Shoushan Zoo has another surprise for the public: an elephant named Ali, which the public has always been led to believe was a male, is in fact female.” – Taipei Times

“A man in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is negotiating with the Wuhan Zoo after an elephant threw a stone that hit his daughter in the head, causing her to bleed.” – China Daily