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Wolong, Fare Well?
China earthquake shook up pandas |
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12 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:22 PM on 12 Jun 2008 China's destructive earthquake took a toll on wild panda habitat, State Forestry Administration officials said Thursday. Only 1,590 pandas still live in the wild, and about 1,400 of those live in China's Sichuan Province, which was rocked hard by the quake. Officials estimate that some 8.3 percent of wild panda digs was completely destroyed, and 83 percent suffered damage. "The dense forests covering these ... |
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| Topics: China, endangered species, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A Burden to Bear
Captive pandas survive China earthquake |
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13 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:56 PM on 13 May 2008 With 12,000 people dead from the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province on Monday -- and the death toll expected to climb significantly -- the survival of 144 endangered pandas is small comfort. But survive they did: all of the pandas living in three research centers in the earthquake zone have been reported safe. Three-quarters of China's wild pandas live in the Sichuan province, but the wild one ... |
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