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Asian elephants mostly roam outside protected areas — and it’s a problem
![An aerial view of a herd of wild Asian elephants in a gardened village mountainside in Pu'er, Yunnan Province, China, 2021.](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-022-03318-y/d41586-022-03318-y_23615122.jpg)
A herd of Asian elephants wandered out of their nature reserve in southwestern China last year. Credit: Wang Zhengpeng/VCG via Getty
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03318-y
The reporting of the story was supported by International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.
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