. >> we traveled to the region of chiang mai in northern thailand, home to many of the elephant camps enjoyed by tourists. >> there have been recent sites based in africa watching elephants, among other things, for a very, veryong time whereas in asia there's very little research has been done. very little has been said about the dramatic drop in population. no one would have any idea that this species is also endangered. >> johroberts runs an elepnt camp. he was one of the first to recognize the link between the supply of elephants for the tourism industry and elephant hunting in the wild. >> we've en jumpi up and down saying, if you buy an elephant, you're probably taking anher elephant out of the wild. we realized very early on that buying elephants was causing a problem and hurting the wild population or at least the burmese population. >> the hunting of wild elephants is illegal in thailand, but experts claim the practice is widespread in neighboring burma, and it threatens the last healthy populations of asian elephants that reside there. baby elephants are particularly sought a

may be wrong. but i understand that in chinese schools schools, chiang kai-shek is now taught as a ero. and i'd like to hear your comment on how that manage edd to -- that transformation was ccomplished. >> well, thank you. you're quite right. chiang kai-shek is seen as a very important historical figure, a national hero in the ay that he is not in taiwan, where he is now seen as having led a rather vicious occupation force with some justification. the reason this comes out fof the construction of a new narrative about china in which it emerges in world war ii and which clearly chiang kai-shek nd the nationalists did most of the fighting. and now that is seen as -- it's not even simply beating back imperialism and the apanese. it is the re-emergence of a new china. it's the saving of a civilization that was a great risk of being utterly destroyed. it was a real possibility of asia becoming asia dominated by japan. it would have been a very different asia. and you know, these crises in the last two centuries in chinese history were real. that is simply no longer ossible. if that's -- if