China creating world’s largest panda breeding centre
April 22nd, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by admin New Delhi, Apr.22 (ANI): Chinas Sichuan Province is building the world’s largest giant panda breeding centre.
It is expected that the new nature reserve will house about 200 of the endangered animals.
The reserve will include 20 outdoor homes and a 20,000-sq-m playground, Zhang Hemin, chief of the administrative bureau of the Wolong Nature Reserve.
The giant panda is one of the world’s most endangered species and is found only in China. An estimated 1,600 wild pandas live in nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, and 217 are kept in captivity.
The Wolong Nature Reserve covers 2,000 sq km and is China’s first and largest reserve devoted to panda conservation.
By the end of last year, the reserve had bred 130 captive pandas from an original 10, the largest panda species group in the world.
Eight young pandas from the reserve will also leave their habitat for Beijing next month, to allow visitors from different parts of the world a glimpse of the endangered animals during the Olympic Games.
The increase in the number of pandas reflects the country’s efforts in protecting animals and plants by establishing nature reserves, officials said.
The new reserve itself is part of green efforts that have seen more than 2,400 nature reserves of various kinds being set up, covering more than 15 percent of the nation’s land area, official figures showed. (ANI)
- China creates special hospital for pandas - May 05, 2011
- China releases pregnant pandas into the wild - Jul 26, 2010
- Chinese giant pandas to fly to Paris - Jan 10, 2012
- China's 'spoilt' pandas - Jun 18, 2011
- Panda still endangered despite baby boom - Sep 03, 2010
- China marks 140th anniversary of Giant Panda's discovery - Aug 16, 2009
- China loans two pandas to Canada - Feb 12, 2012
- Want to be a panda keeper? - Sep 28, 2010
- China starts panda census - Jun 28, 2011
- Chinese pandas seen eating bones rather than bamboo - Mar 02, 2010
- Chinese pandas spotted eating bones rather than bamboo (Lead, Changing Dateline) - Mar 02, 2010
- Panda Quan Quan's death blamed on gas poisoning - Jul 28, 2010
- Pandas sent to the wild in China - Jan 12, 2012
- Panda numbers increase in China - Dec 17, 2011
- China to construct new panda breeding base in Sichuan - Apr 19, 2009
Tags: administrative bureau, animals and plants, breeding centre, captivity, chinas, endangered animals, endangered species, gansu, giant panda, hemin, nature reserves, New Delhi, olympic games, panda, panda conservation, pandas, shaanxi provinces, sichuan province, species group, wolong nature reserve
