{"id":34973,"date":"2021-08-09T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-heads-yunnan-reserve"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:24:50","slug":"chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-finally-heads-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34973","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s herd of wandering elephants finally heads for home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen wild Asian elephants have been guided across the Yuanjiang river in Yunnan, and a path leading back to their nature reserve is being made<\/p>\n<p>After an epic 17-month journey that made international headlines, China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/herd-of-escaped-elephants-leave-500km-trail-of-destruction-in-south-west-china\">famous herd of wandering elephants <\/a>appears to finally be heading home.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 Asian elephants of various sizes and ages were guided across the Yuanjiang river in Yunnan on Sunday night and a path was being made for them to return to the nature reserve in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/chinas-herd-of-wandering-elephants-heads-yunnan-reserve\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen wild Asian elephants have been guided across the Yuanjiang river in Yunnan, and a path leading back to their nature reserve is being madeAfter an epic 17-month journey that made international headlines, China\u2019s famous herd of wandering elephan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34973\/revisions\/34974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}