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China has started counting its endangered pandas on Sunday, June 26, 2011 and is using panda droppings for the “once every decade” panda census.




According to Xinhua News Agency on its official website on Monday, the China panda counting began on Sunday with a pilot survey in the Wanglang National Reserve in Mianyang City.

Yang Xuyu, Sichuan Province forestry administration officer told Xinhua that the place is being believed to have the highest number of pandas in the entire country.

“About 70 trackers are currently being trained at the nature reserve and will start their work in two or...
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In this Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 photo, a four-month-old panda cub is picked up to be released into the wild by a panda researcher who dressed up as a giant panda to prevent the panda cub seeing his human shape at the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in Wolong, in southwest China's Sichuan province. Panda researchers in southwestern China's Sichuan province are working to reintroduce giant pandas into the wild within 15 years, after successfully breeding them in captivity.« Read less
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I think it's wonderful how man helps God's animals :)
posted by MusaGirl28
Chinese state media reported today that the country has started its once-a-decade panda census, the fourth tallying of the endangered species since it first began in the 1970s. 70 panda trackers are being trained during a pilot survey in the Wanglang National Reserve, in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province. According to Yang Xuyu, a forestry official, that particular nature reserve is believed to have the largest number of wild pandas in the country.

Before you get so jealous of these panda trackers' jobs that you quit your own, know that much of panda tracking actually involves collecting...
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posted by DIZZY_PANDA
The PANDA BY:MELISSA GOMEZ
ONCE THERE WAS A PANDA NAMED TIM, HE MOVED TO PANDALAND FROM BAMBOOLAND.HE WAS NERVOUS HE HAD TO GO TO PANDA SCHOOL.ALL U HAD TO DO IS SEE HOW MANY BAMBOO U CAN EAT IN 30SECONDS.HE GOT FIRST PLACE!HE ATE 30.YAY!AND THE ADVENTURE CONTINUESE.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................NEW STORY WILL BE AVALIBLE WHEN IT COMES OUT...YAY!
posted by MusaGirl28
Beijing, June 18 (IANS) Giant pandas in China's research centres have become 'spoilt' because of the extra care taken by experts for these lovable creatures that were once on the verge of extinction.
Experts said pandas should be given 'less care' than they are currently used to, as it may prevent them from adapting to life in the wild.
'It is unfair for the animals to breed them in captivity like pets,' Zhang Jinyuan, deputy head of the Beijing Zoo, was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Daily.
Most panda cubs begin life in an incubator, far from the natural touch of their mother. These pandas...
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