Signs of life at reserve after 10 years
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July 5, 2010, Monday
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FORESTRY workers in southwest China's Sichuan Province have spotted four giant pandas in a nature reserve where none has been seen for 10 years.
The workers saw the pandas on Wednesday at the Baihe Nature Reserve in Jiuzhaigou County, in the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
"We were patrolling the Tongjiashan Mountain when we saw the pandas," said Bai Yongbin, a forestry worker at the reserve.
Bai and his colleagues also found fresh panda droppings and saw that large areas of bamboo forest had been gnawed.
The 16,000-hectare Baihe Reserve is at the northern edge of one giant panda habitat - the Minshan Mountains in Sichuan. The area is a major stopping point for giant pandas when they migrate from Sichuan to Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in the northwest.
The panda population at the reserve shrank significantly after the amount of bamboo in the reserve decreased in the 1980s.
Eight pandas were found in a 2000 survey but not one had been spotted since then.
The workers saw the pandas on Wednesday at the Baihe Nature Reserve in Jiuzhaigou County, in the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
"We were patrolling the Tongjiashan Mountain when we saw the pandas," said Bai Yongbin, a forestry worker at the reserve.
Bai and his colleagues also found fresh panda droppings and saw that large areas of bamboo forest had been gnawed.
The 16,000-hectare Baihe Reserve is at the northern edge of one giant panda habitat - the Minshan Mountains in Sichuan. The area is a major stopping point for giant pandas when they migrate from Sichuan to Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in the northwest.
The panda population at the reserve shrank significantly after the amount of bamboo in the reserve decreased in the 1980s.
Eight pandas were found in a 2000 survey but not one had been spotted since then.
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