China's Last Elephants | Free Documentary Nature

[@FreeDocumentaryNature]

Thousands of elephants once roamed China's vast continent. Today, only 250 are left hiding in the jungles of Southeastern China in a remote place called Xishuangbanna , in Yunnan province. Despite all odds, they keep hanging around in this ancient, mystic beautiful land, existing on the brink of extinction. What has caused the demise of these wonderful creatures? Can they be saved? This documentary follows the quest of one woman, Grace Gabriel, who wants to change the way local people feel about these animals and campaigns tirelessly for their conservation. Wildlife Cameraman Richard Kirby and his son Adam are the two-man team, filming events and these animals in the world before they are gone forever. This true story tells of their combined efforts and adventures with the magnificent gentle giants and their champion Grace Gabriel.

[@garytucker8696]

High level raised platforms may be be better to grow crops on.

[@shannonjohnson3910]

Not remote anymore.

[@TimeTheory2099]

China should do more to Stop their import of African elephants and other endangered species parts.

[@bobblie7715]

@@TimeTheory2099 and to educate their citizens/consumers that a dead elephant is the cost of their trinkets...supposedly most do not know that is the cost..

[@bobblie7715]

consumers of ivory need to be educated that dead elephants are the cost of their trinkets..such an intelligent,social..magnificent animal killed just for that.....what does that say about us human beings?

[@judithcampbell1705]

I hope these elephants are highly protected from poachers and other humans who would do them harm. This documentary is beautiful and very educational, showing the nature of these gentle giants. I hope they survive in peace away from noise and other things that disturb them. They need space and lots of wild grasses for forageing. I hope people can make room for them, as humans have taken away so much from them. We are responsible for their low numbers, so it's up to us to do everything necessary to prevent their extinction. Thank you 💛 very, very much for this great documentary.

[@lindacantwell6813]

Thank God for people like Grace & Richard!! Thankyou! Human greed, the scourge of the earth & all living things!!

[@jaik9321]

Good to know that elephants are there in China...poaching is a very serious threat ; across the globe...we need very very strict laws to handle it.

[@lynnjudd9036]

And better enforcement of the laws already in place.

[@haniida1827]

Tq for this documentary about elephant in china..and tq to chinese goverment for protecting this elephant and others animal too from pochers and hopefully they are taking care this all left elephant in china..

[@kunalnegi4921]

Nice documentary about elephant🐘 and conservation of them.

[@MH-tn3pp]

People would prefer to give them food, talk to the,, sing to them, instead of riding them or force them to perform silly games. Conservation and intelligent care are the future for all animals that salvage humans with no education kill for no reason.

[@careyostrer6193]

Thank you very much for adding to the information we have about Asian elephants in China. It would be interesting, as you believe them to be Indian, to find out how they got there. It is interesting also that your publication date here on KZbin is around 1 month after the great migration of a herd from Yunnan returned home to the Mengyang sub province of the Xishuagbanna National Nature Reserve. I don’t know exactly where you were filming? I’m guessing you didn’t know about this as you didn’t mention it, no doubt you will have caught up with all the video footage and reports now, esp on CGTN written reports in 2020 and 1 Jan 2021, but the BBC and others also reported. I learnt so much about elephants migration from this reporting and video footage, as I think millions round the world did. What was so impressive was how various experts came together, firemen, ecologists, academics and others to keep the elephants and people safe, even when the herd passed through highly populated areas. The herd had 2 babies during the migration. The Chinese Team is now working alongside others to improve food stocks and variety within the reserve and on its borders, Asian elephants like to graze on grass for instance, and they were saying that maybe they can improve access to grasses and even other crops to lessen conflict with the human population, I understand your friend at IFAW is doing a lot of this. There is another ecologist specialising in large mammals called Ahimsa who has been working there since 2016 with the Chinese team. So between you all it looks as though f the Chinese population of Asian elephants will continue to increase, and who knows, maybe one day repopulate areas like Cambodia and Vietnam

[@shaunwhalen6653]

I wish people wouldn't move into wild life's territories . That's my opinion

[@haniida1827]

At last we seen this wild chinese elephant..tq so much 😭😭😭💗💗💗👍👍👍

[@MatthewWilliams-pd7iy]

These a such AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL animals...

[@dulcetnature6187]

Thanks for this documentary!

[@clairepapadatos1116]

PPS Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us! Most appropriated, and most worrying😢

[@babaib3513]

Thank u

[@ThereselouiseCarpenter]

Many moons ago Grandpa told me...*"way down South, where bananas grow, a grasshopper stepped on an elephants toe....the elephant said with tears in its eyes...."go pick on someone your own size"......he then chuckled with his as I asked several sizable questions and he then reflected on the huge grasshoppers he saw overseas .

[@retard_activated]

This is cute! Made me smile, thanks! 😆

[@kellyliu1645]

This should be forbidden. Elephants should never be used to entertain people as they have feelings. If they are in the protective area, aren’t they supposed to be free? I even saw a video that they are on a chain. Why???

[@ys1281]

Beautiful❤️❤️❤️

[@rene29200]

❤️😻❤️😎❤️👍❤️ Please,Leave the music out!👏

[@clairepapadatos1116]

Absolutely brilliant footage! 👍 I could hear everything you said with headphones, but maybe for some the music was a bit loud! Just loved it! Thank you so much! 👍 👌 ❤

[@BluesJamFan]

music drowns dialog

[@carolyngrant9278]

I sometimes think photographers/documentary makers do more harm than good. In their pursuance of endangered species they reveal the animals' last refuges, thus alerting not only conservationists but hunters too. They give out their locations to everyone. A real dissservice to the animals who are in some cases having to adopt and adapt to harsher conditions.

[@wykeishacraft6820]

This is a Documentary Channel i loves watching , just like i watching here now.

[@carolyngrant9278]

Maybe the solution is to target the sculptors of ivory because what is the point of ivory if there isn't an experienced carver?

[@careyostrer6193]

But they are working for someone who owns the ivory, sometimes huge piles of it. When the British had an empire the devastation through logging, hunting, and destruction of habitat caused to elephants was enormous in Asia and Africa. Ivory was imported to London in tons, an area of London called Elephant & Castle in south London bordering the Thames river was named from the ivory warehouses that used to be there. And it goes on, up til today when others do it, and now there are just 45,000 highly endangered Asian elephants left in the wild across the whole of Asia. I’m British btw!

[@alanboyd7341]

Why loud music over speakers softbut voice. Music adds nothing

[@MMD-z6z]

You need some Music in your life!?!?

[@richardjohnson5529]

the "poaching" or as i call it Murdering of Elephants for their teeth which ivory is an inhuman Evil Act

[@ericlakota1847]

Their so beutifull good that their so afraid of people sad story I'm Glade all most of the people even the farmers love them that is heart worming

[@junezhie6203]

Now there are more than 300 hundred elephants in China

[@rafaelguerreros263]

You wanna keep the elephant away from the villages..... raise 🐝 bees.... bee farming. Elephants would never come near the village

[@terryford8280]

No way would I sleep out there in the forest!!! Noooo SIR!! Leaches too!!! Noooo

[@elderepyper]

I don't want them to be the (last) elephants. It should not be so.

[@careyostrer6193]

Their population is increasing in China

[@davidnyc487]

I can’t believe that he didn’t know That there were Wild Elephants in China.🇨🇳

[@rosiekh]

Why? I thought “traditional medicine” in China had killed them all. Given the chance, I’m sure they would all be killed if they could be found. China is so focused on pandas it’s ridiculous. Look at the way they treat the elephants they “show” to visitors. Awful place

[@amandastakeonit7402]

That show and games at about 30 minutes in is just wrong! The poaching is wrong! Eating all of your native animals is wrong!!!I am so livid!

[@terryford8280]

HALLELUJAH!! 👏YAY 🙌.. It's the small things in life that give me a BIG "CHARGE"!! Please, be safe and BLESSED.. Call/check-in on a loved one/elderly TODAY!!😘🙏💕😘🙏😘

[@jacobbrawdy2684]

Amen!!!

[@TheSmokey1523]

Some of these elephants are going north.

[@careyostrer6193]

But they returned in Dec 2021. What an amazing migration that was. I think the team in the National Nature Reserve are acting to keep them there now, by improving available food stocks. I learnt so much about wild elephants from the coverage of the migration, and the amazing efforts to protect them and people.

[@amosbatto3051]

Honestly, China needs to crack down on its own culture and stop the idiocy of traditional Chinese medicine based on animal parts.

[@enigma6682]

It seem they can enforce it, despite they start to ban some animal parts, but it next to fruitless (especially Rhino's horn and swim bladder of Chinese bahaba)

[@baraclude]

I know you know very little about the subject just like 99% of the folks but let me enlighten you. Elephant is being killed for their ivory which are turned into sculpture and other artistic objects. It has nothing to do with medicine. Exotic and endangered animals are protected under Chinese law just like how cocaine is illegal in the US. How are the US doing with their illegal drugs?

[@sxx010100]

LoL, we do not need this documentary now. Just watch the TV and social media there are tons of footages for elephant walking through cities.

[@liontouradventure4156]

Nice elephant

[@suehafford9463]

Just think about NEW 3 CHILD LAWS, none of those kids will ever see any of these elephants 🐘. The new normal life for the world 🌎. No clean water, no animals except for consumption.

[@noegiducos5609]

At lest we see these elephants roaming around China today.

[@wykeishacraft6820]

Cute baby 🐘

[@유정기-x2u]

저런코끼리쏘같은거 하지마라 좀 인간들아 지겨워라 진짜 자연에서 먹고살게 그냥 둬라 꽂챙이로 찍어서 괴롭히고 지랄들이야 동물들을

[@ericlakota1847]

Wish this could happen in india the farmers logged all types of india rain forest made tea and patties and now they hate the elphents that have always Ben their india farmers and elophents are having huge problem

[@careyostrer6193]

Really, India is killing me with its lack of action. Not like it can’t afford it either. Sri Lanka is alsoin a dangerous situation, as is Sumatra and Borneo… really scary that the world could eliminate these incredible animals and all they do for the places they inhabit.

[@linphou5739]

But there suppose to be 300 left at least it said on CGTN

[@jinghu8796]

1980 has 100 elephants in china and now 300 elephants

[@VijayKumar-ik5vj]

I want to know where did u pick these background musics for this documentaries

[@clairepapadatos1116]

PS In retrospect, the sound balance was amazing! 👍 ✌ 😘

[@ericvanderbeek6937]

I can’t wait to have a pass port one day

[@amandastakeonit7402]

If they would just shoot poachers on the spot or make them step into one of those traps and just stay there for days, they might stop poaching! Tell them that their fairy tale potions are no excuse for murder!

[@guruprasadhn2152]

Arjuna and abhimanyu the great ❤

[@hetienyi8628]

Seeing more humans than elepnamts.

[@bokyaw-ov3ew]

🙏🙏🙏🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🐘🐘🐘🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🐘🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🥭🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🙏

[@lw3649]

No wild elephants in Europe.

[@mrpreparedallthetime1099]

That a shame!

[@AnnieT369]

They can remember better than humans.

[@Somee989]

These poor people in close communities are far happier with daily living then city dwellers, as long as food is available.

[@lynnleigha580]

Maybe they shouldn't have moved into the elephants territory and that wouldn't happen

[@thetrueamericanguy19]

So are the Asian elephants Indian or Sri Lankan???

[@FACELESS_VOID_00]

Asian Elephant has different subspecies like the Biggest Sri Lankan Elephant, Indian Elephant, the smallest Borean Elephant, etc.

[@FreeDocumentaryNature]

I only know the difference are the ears. Bigger ears - African. Smaller: Indian or I’m Guessing all Asian elephants? Don’t know tbh

[@thetrueamericanguy19]

@@FACELESS_VOID_00 Don't forget about the Sumatran elephant.

[@thetrueamericanguy19]

Indian elephants are found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, The Malay Peninsula, Laos, China, Cambodia, And Vietnam.

[@careyostrer6193]

@@thetrueamericanguy19 and the Borneo elephant, the tiny one sometimes called the Pigmy Elephant

[@ptsheth]

The tigers in these forests are the Indian tigers - there’s no sub-species called the ‘Indo-Chinese tigers’🙄 and the elephants are without a shred of a doubt, INDIAN elephants!

[@donaldlawrance2982]

Indian nationalist, they are all the same animal. You are not as intelligent as you claim to be. 😂

[@babaib3513]

China pls protect ur elephant pls

[@tracyrae1047]

First

[@FACELESS_VOID_00]

No you're not! I was here first!

[@terryford8280]

You guys make my day!!😂😂😂 BE BLESSED!!💕🙏💕

[@terryford8280]

@@FACELESS_VOID_00 😂😘👍😘

[@bobikibongi7667]

No they are migrating 🤔🤔

[@akiburrahman7830]

Because of background music i didn't understand the narrator

[@sandrarichmond8034]

Should not tie the baby elephant. I thought they can’t hunt the elephants anymore they are not okay in china they’re not treated well

[@FreeDocumentaryNature]

no they are notn

[@nicolabooth4441]

So very!! 😢 sad 😢

[@rickstar6276]

I said it once and I'll say it again I don't know what villages around the world expect cause most of these animals homes have been destroyed and they keep destroying it

[@ericlakota1847]

Their where type of elophent all over world one time or another usa alaska russia we had mammoths at one time wonder if india had mammoths

[@dawnhock4545]

Way to many commercials

[@stephanriley5304]

I`m surprised they have any animals left ,,, But now you made this documentary, it wont be long before they eat them all.

[@potblack243]

yeah. i love it. comments from european or american or australian where the elephants already extinct long time ago. 🤣

[@enigma6682]

@@potblack243 sir, elephant in America extinct bc of climate change during the last Ice age, and in Australia they never have wild elephant since the beginning.

[@david50665]

@@potblack243 there were eaten to extinction in prehistoric times

[@suarsuar747]

😂

[@ebmurphy602]

narrator mentions indochinese tiger roaming - not so fast. unless I misunderstood or this was filmed 50 yrs ago, they seem to be sharing with us alternative closed society wishful facts? shady.

[@ianofliverpool7701]

ffs stop whispering and speak up I barely heard a word

[@lcz4033]

We need to be more respectful in all senses

[@luxurywavesceylon1563]

Cyber jumbos!♥ 👍Thnx chaina.

[@1missing]

14:27 the red panda is not closely related to the panda lol

[@Holocaustica]

Lol. It's not even a panda but on name.

[@JoBiatch]

The constant background music is so unnecessary and annoying!!

[@boiragirules]

Moving so free in China?

[@ericvanderbeek6937]

R they a protected animal?

[@lazarusdouvos]

thats disturbing to watch the poor elephants captive for tourists. i dont trust china will release that poor little baby elephant back into the wild

[@david50665]

more likely the youngster will be eaten by the locals

[@careyostrer6193]

@@david50665 sensible comment, not

[@wildhogs1ful]

Who is surprised? I do not think God made these animals so that people could ride their backs and snatch their r tusk out and make stuff. I am surprised that any animal still lives

[@david50665]

dont worry ...all the remaining elephants will be eaten

[@mariin7003]

✌️

[@cynthiaschwab8894]

Um, do the eat the too?

[@유정기-x2u]

어미는죽고 새끼만 살았네 ㅠ ㅠ

[@ReneeBuck-h3q]

Pigme?

[@shorrtty9591]

China waiting to eat all the elephants :👁️👄👁️

[@1954corpus]

They will eat anything with legs except tables , anything with wings except planes and anything from the waters except ships !!!! You can add more animals !

[@commanderneoncc2528]

good joke

[@linphou5739]

No don’t eat them there virus just like bats and pangolins

[@david50665]

i guess the elephants are very yummy...and should be completely eaten

[@careyostrer6193]

Don’t be an idiot.

[@Jason-rm1yt]

Chinese eat all of the wild lifes.

[@shannonjohnson3910]

Eating there way through Africa. So desperate to get it on they don't mind eating some tiger balls, or rhino horn . Or some elephant tusk carved and sitting on their tea table. . .

[@Jason-rm1yt]

@@shannonjohnson3910 In China, people have two things left in their life, food and sex, they don't have their own minds, that's why China has to steal and spy the other's intellectual properties to develop China's high-techs.

[@jac8086]

@@Jason-rm1yt colonizers only know one thing: rob every continent

[@david50665]

@@Jason-rm1yt dont worry all the remaining elephants will be eaten by the locals to complete your demonization of china

[@careyostrer6193]

@@Jason-rm1yt you obviously know nothing of the conservation effort to the wild Asian elephant population in Yunnan, it is increasing, with such a low number to begin with it will take time considering the long gestation period 18-22month pregnancy, and the infrequency and narrow window of opportunity when female becomes fertile being only a few days. Didn’t you watch the great migration of elephants from this same region 1000 kilometres round trip in 2020-21 and the extreme care are gentleness with which they were treated and people and elephants protected? You should look at media reports, you might learn something 😁

[@DanielBadger]

Last elephant China

[@1983katz]

Ate the rest

[@Thecircustapes]

Interestingly enough the southern Han dynasty actually possessed a unit of war elephants for combat in the south.

[@doggy2173]

First

[@tracyrae1047]

So im first

[@FACELESS_VOID_00]

@@tracyrae1047 Hey, I was here first than both of you!