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Chengdu Panda Base, an example in panda conservation
Tags China, Roxane’s Travels, Wild Profile, wildlife conservation
Last month Roxane went to China and wrote about the Giant Panda (not the be confused with the the panda, the Red Panda) and wrote about the incredible characteristics that these bears share with domestic and big cats! Missed it? Read it here. Today she looks at the efforts that have been made to protect these species.
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding situated in Sichuan China, as its name self-explains, is home to an intensive panda breeding program that has been perfected over the years to finally see the success rates it is renown for today. From her trip to the centre, she found out just how difficult – and why – breeding pandas is, and why it hadn’t be successful until the more recent years.
Why are pandas difficult to protect?
To begin with, researchers had little to work with as there were so few pandas left in the wild to…
