The 15 wild Asian elephants left their habitat in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Yunnan province and     1    (move) to the north. 41 days later, the herd traveled to Hongta district, Yuxi city neighboring with the south of Kunming. The     2    (locate) was only 20 km away from Kunming's Jingning district and less than 100 km away from the capital s downtown area. The herd,     3    (original) consisting of 17 elephants in total at their departure time,     4    (report) to leave Xishuangbanna last year.     5     May 24th, a young elephant found alcoholic food at a villager's home and got drunk. Luckily, the baby elephant,     6     overslept, rejoined the unit the next day. The 15 elephants continued their journey. The Asian elephant,     7    (include) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species as endangered, enjoys Class-A protection in China, the same level as that of the giant panda. Yunnan     8    (be) the only habitat of wild Asian elephants in China. Before the 1970s, the species was threatened due to many reasons, such as an increase in the human population, reduced forestry areas     9     illegal(非法的) hunting. The number of elephants dropped significantly. However, due to determined protection efforts in recent     10    (decade), the Asian elephant population in China has risen from 170 in the 1970s to 300.