Seventeen wild Asian elephants have entered and remained in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Southwest China's Yunnan province for over two weeks, as of Saturday.

A total of 3,718 new and newly recorded species have been discovered in Yunnan Province from 1992-2020, according to a press conference in Kunming on May 22. The statistics is shown in the Checklist of New and Newly Recorded Species in Yunnan (1992-2020), which is released at the press conference of the 2021 International Biodiversity Day on May 22 in Kunming, issued by the Department of Ecology and Environment of Yunnan Province.

The checklist of new and newly recorded species in Yunnan (1992-2020) (herein after referred to as Checklist), issued by the Department of Ecology and Environment of Yunnan Province, was released at the press conference of the 2021 International Biodiversity Day on May 22 in Kunming.

A total of 3,718 new and newly recorded species have been discovered in Yunnan Province from 1992-2020, according to a press conference in Kunming on May 22.