Wild Giant Pandas Making a Comeback in China
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O my.
there, there, my friend.
I am not Jackie Chan
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It seemed to say: so what?
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Good to know that Chinese don't eat Pandas!
BUT the same can't be said about TIGERS that are hunted to extinction (throughout Siberia, South Asia and more specifically in India) - just to satisfy the libido of Chinese men that believe in Chinese traditional medicine! Is it not?
Raising this number of pandas would bankrupt the finances of some India's poorest provinces，provinces with annual tax revenues of only a few hundred of millions of USDs。
Perhaps you are right. But being the superior human beings with unlimited budget, that you guys have - why can't you show some mercy to other endangered animals (Tigers, leopards et al) and strictly enforce your own laws when it comes to all the wild animal trade inside your country?
Demand for tiger parts in traditional Chinese medicine has literally decimated their numbers so much that it is the single biggest reason for their poaching! Same is the case of demand for Tiger/leopard skins among the Tibetan traditions! The moment you curb the demand for such products, the numbers of those wild animals will bounce back.
Or is it that you guys have turned an intentional blind eye on illegal tiger trade because it doesn't concern your country as much as OTHER countries? One wonders!
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A giant panda seen at a zebra crossing in downtown Yingxiu, a city in Southwest China's Sichuan province in the early hours of the morning on March 5, 2015. (Photo/West China Metropolitan Daily)
A park security guard in a township in Southwest China's Sichuan province got a shock on Thursday morning when he played back overnight CCTV footage and saw a special guest - a wild panda.
Wild pandas rarely venture into areas populated by humans, but this one had somehow found its way to the gate of a public park in Yingxiu township of Wenchuan county. It showed up on the CCTV footage from about 2 am.
"The panda looked well and seemed to suffer no injuries in the video," a manager from the park said.
The animal is seen trying to climb over the gate but failing several times. It then makes its way over two zebra crossings and finally gets inside the park by clambering across a raised flower bed.
The security guard called the police and Wolong Nature Reserve - which, at some 40 km from the park, is the nearest giant panda reserve. It has sent staff to look for the panda in Yingxiu.
The township has never seen a giant panda before, a local said.
Official survey results showed on Saturday that there were 1,864 giant pandas living in the wild worldwide as of the end of 2013. That number is an increase of 268, or 16.8 percent, over a previous survey conducted in 2003.
According to the survey, which was conducted by the State Forestry Administration, Sichuan Province is home to 74.4 percent of the wild giant pandas in China.
In May 2008, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc on Wolong. More than 100 captive pandas were transferred elsewhere.
A park security guard in a township in Southwest China's Sichuan province got a shock on Thursday morning when he played back overnight CCTV footage and saw a special guest - a wild panda.
Wild pandas rarely venture into areas populated by humans, but this one had somehow found its way to the gate of a public park in Yingxiu township of Wenchuan county. It showed up on the CCTV footage from about 2 am.
"The panda looked well and seemed to suffer no injuries in the video," a manager from the park said.
The animal is seen trying to climb over the gate but failing several times. It then makes its way over two zebra crossings and finally gets inside the park by clambering across a raised flower bed.
The security guard called the police and Wolong Nature Reserve - which, at some 40 km from the park, is the nearest giant panda reserve. It has sent staff to look for the panda in Yingxiu.
The township has never seen a giant panda before, a local said.
Official survey results showed on Saturday that there were 1,864 giant pandas living in the wild worldwide as of the end of 2013. That number is an increase of 268, or 16.8 percent, over a previous survey conducted in 2003.
According to the survey, which was conducted by the State Forestry Administration, Sichuan Province is home to 74.4 percent of the wild giant pandas in China.
In May 2008, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake wreaked havoc on Wolong. More than 100 captive pandas were transferred elsewhere.
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Pandas have more traffic sense they don't jaywalk and follow traffic rules!
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