Efforts to save elephants from extinction

"HCM City (VNA) - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Forestry Department is building three elephant reservations in a bid to save the mammal from extinction.

"The move is amidst the fact that the number of elephants in Viet Nam, one of the 13 Asian countries, where elephants habitat [sic], has fallen dramatically over two and a half decades.

"Between 1975-80, Viet Nam had more than 2,000 elephants. However, according to a recent survey, the figure now is around 160 at present, with most of them living along the border provinces with Laos and Cambodia." Full text here