“China's wild Asian elephant population has grown from about 150 in the 1980s to nearly 400 today, according to a report released on Thursday that credits decades of habitat protection and conservation efforts in the country's southwestern province of Yunnan…

Despite their slow reproductive rate, the population has continued to grow, with monitoring data showing that nearly every elephant herd in the major habitats of Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture and Pu'er city in Yunnan has welcomed new calves every year in recent years, according to the report.”

From China Daily.