From 2020 to 2021, a herd of wild elephants migrated more than 500 kilometers northward from their habitat (Yunnan, Southwest China) became an international hotspot. The study analysis the main habitat (Mengyang Reserve and surrounding areas) of this group of wild elephants from the natural environment, changes in land use types, and habitat fragmentation and found the rare hot and dry weather before the wild elephant migration and the habitat destruction caused by human activities in the past ten years contributed to this migration.