简介
Xishuangbanna Wild Elephant Valley is located in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve Mengyangzi Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve, 22 kilometers from Jinghong City, and is the first national park in China with the theme of animal conservation and environmental protection.
According to archaeological findings, Asian elephants were once widely distributed in the Yangtze River basin, the two provinces and Guizhou, and even as far north as the Yellow River basin. With the harsh climate and geographical environment, Asian elephants were forced to migrate all the way south. At present, Xishuangbanna is the only habitat of Asian elephants in China. The Wild Elephant Valley, located at the combination of the eastern and western parts of Meng Yang Nature Reserve, is the central channel for the exchange and convergence of wild Asian elephants living in the two areas. Wild Elephant Valley is the only place in China where wild Asian elephants can communicate with Asian elephants in a close distance, and is known as "the bridge between human and Asian The bridge of communication between human and Asian wild elephants". Wild Elephant Valley is rich in natural resources, bringing together tropical rainforests, southern subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests and many rare species of plants and animals, and is a comprehensive ecological tourism scenic spot integrating ecological tourism, science popularization, science teaching and leisure vacation. It has been awarded the first batch of "National Ecological Tourism Demonstration Area" and the gold medal of "50 places worth visiting for foreigners in China". At the same time, the Wild Elephant Valley is also the "National Science Education Base", "China Yunnan Asian Elephant Breeding Base" (the cooperation project between Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve Administration and WWF), Xishuangbanna Wild Butterfly Breeding and Reproduction The research base of wild butterfly breeding and breeding in Xishuangbanna, and many other ecological conservation research projects.