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« on: April 22, 2008, 07:43:05 am »



A baby panda eats bamboo at the Chengdu Research Base
for Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province.

The world's largest panda breeding centre is being built in
southwest China, an official at the country's biggest
sanctuary for the notoriously sex-shy animals has said.

(AFP/File/Liu Jin)








                                          China builds world's largest panda-breeding centre


 


BEIJING (AFP) - The world's largest panda breeding centre is being built in southwest China, an official at the country's biggest sanctuary for the notoriously sex-shy animals said Tuesday.
 
The new centre, which will house 200 pandas, will be an extension to current facilities at the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province, reserve official Zhang Hemin told AFP.

"It will be the world's largest panda research centre based on its area and functions," Zhang said. "The first period of construction will be finished by the end of this year."

Besides pens for feeding and breeding, the base will also include a playground measuring 19,400-square-metre (210,000-square-foot) , Xinhua news agency said.

Pandas, one of the world's most endangered species, are a rare national treasure in China.

They are notoriously poor breeders, and experts in China are desperately trying to make the creatures mate to ensure their survival, using measures as extreme as panda pornography or rigorous "sexercises".

In one of the exercises, male pandas are made to walk on their two legs to strengthen their pelvic and hip muscles, earlier reports said.

As of November last year, China had 239 giant pandas in captivity, with another 27 living outside the country. About 1,590 more pandas are thought to be living in the wild.

By the end of 2007, Wolong Nature Reserve, which spans 2,000 square kilometres, had bred 130 captive pandas from an original 10, the state-run China Daily said.
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Panda cubs drink milk at the Chengdu Research Base
of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province,
April 17, 2008.

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.

Panda together with Tibetan antelope, swallow, fish
and the spirit of the Olympic flame are represented
by the five stylised doll mascots for the 2008
Beijing Olympic Games.

REUTERS/Alfred Cheng Jin
(CHINA)
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A panda cub plays at the Chengdu Research Base of
Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province,
April 17, 2008.

REUTERS/Alfred Cheng Jin
(CHINA)
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
on Friday pledged to fund an en-
closure for two giant pandas due on
loan from China amid suggestions that
failure to do so would offend Beijing

(AFP/Liu Jin)
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Seven-month-old giant panda cub
Fu Long looks around as he makes
his first outdoor appearance in the
zoo in Vienna March 30, 2008.

The cub was born on August 23 last
year, 127 days after panda couple
Yang Yang and Long Hui mated in
April.

The pandas were transferred from
China to Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003,
and are on loan to Austria by China
for a period of 10 years.

Picture taken March 30, 2008.
REUTERS
/Tiergarten Schoenbrunn/
Handout (AUSTRIA).

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Seven-month-old giant panda cub Fu Long
looks around as he makes his first outdoor
appearance in the zoo in Vienna
March 30, 2008.

The cub was born on August 23 last year,
127 days after panda couple Yang Yang and
Long Hui mated in April.

The pandas were transferred from China to
Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003, and are on loan to
Austria by China for a period of 10 years.

Picture taken March 30, 2008.
REUTERS/
Tiergarten Schoenbrunn/Handout
(AUSTRIA).

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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2008, 08:42:41 pm »

Good for them.  Pandas are so cute.
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