The bar chart portrays the highest limit shift of Asia elephants throughout the 13-year period of time, categorized into nine countries.
In general, India dominated account for the greatest and the second highest proportion while the opposite was true for China. The breakdown indicates that both the government and residents need to pay more attention to the policy to prohibit elephants from being extinct.
It is noticeable that Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and China exhibited the number of elephants under 2,500 in both two-year periods, with minor variations, hovering around 100. However, in 2004, the China segment emerged as the proportion trying to drive the quantity of elephants up approximately a half compared to 1997. Laos consistently remained stable throughout the two-year time frame.
Conversely, in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, more and more elephants are being wiped out compared to the past while India experienced the highest category, responsible for nearly 10,000. Despite a significant shift in 2004, retaining the second greatest in total, reaching precisely 7,500. The composition noted that Myanmar showed the impressive pattern, the proportion figure just after India in the 13-year period. Otherwise, in 1997, the volume of Thailand held abruptly declined from over 3,500 to above 1,500.