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Search and count plans for pandas
By Cyril Li |
January 30, 2009, Friday
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THE national forestry watchdog plans to search and count the number of giant pandas in the wild at Wolong, Sichuan Province in the coming spring.
One of the major giant panda habitats, Wolong used to have 285 giant pandas, 143 of which were living in wild, according to New Express Daily.
At least one panda was killed in the Sichuan earthquake, and one went missing at Wolong, the largest area for pandas in China.
Wolong was just 32 kilometers away from the epicenter of the quake.
The famous Wolong Panda Breeding Center now has only seven pandas, six of them cubs, as most of its pandas were relocated to other places across the country, including neighboring Ya'an, or zoos overseas after the quake.
The exact number of pandas in the 200,000-hectare reserve is unknown, said Liu Xiaolin, chief of the Wolong police. Liu told the newspaper that some pandas might have been injured or killed in the earthquake while landslides had also destroyed plantations with the panda's favorite food, umbrella bamboo.
The Wolong reserve is at the heart of China's efforts to use captive breeding and artificial insemination techniques to save the giant panda.
Sichuan, the worst-hit province, is home to 75 percent of about 1,600 wild pandas in China while Shaanxi Province has 17 percent and Gansu 7 percent.
One of the major giant panda habitats, Wolong used to have 285 giant pandas, 143 of which were living in wild, according to New Express Daily.
At least one panda was killed in the Sichuan earthquake, and one went missing at Wolong, the largest area for pandas in China.
Wolong was just 32 kilometers away from the epicenter of the quake.
The famous Wolong Panda Breeding Center now has only seven pandas, six of them cubs, as most of its pandas were relocated to other places across the country, including neighboring Ya'an, or zoos overseas after the quake.
The exact number of pandas in the 200,000-hectare reserve is unknown, said Liu Xiaolin, chief of the Wolong police. Liu told the newspaper that some pandas might have been injured or killed in the earthquake while landslides had also destroyed plantations with the panda's favorite food, umbrella bamboo.
The Wolong reserve is at the heart of China's efforts to use captive breeding and artificial insemination techniques to save the giant panda.
Sichuan, the worst-hit province, is home to 75 percent of about 1,600 wild pandas in China while Shaanxi Province has 17 percent and Gansu 7 percent.
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