Staff at the rescue and rearing station for elephants in Xishuangbanna measure little Longlong. He was abandoned by his herd shortly after his birth due to a leg injury and is now being nursed here – like 20 of his fellow elephants before him. The Xishuangbanna Biosphere Reserve in the deep south of the Yunnan Province is home to 90 percent of China’s elephants. Until the 1920s, wild elephants roamed as far as the east of the country.