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| China has 217 pandas bred in captivity |
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| www.chinaview.cn
2007-01-03 16:00:05
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China currently has 217 pandas that have been
bred in captivity, said the State Forestry Administration here Wednesday.
Thirty-four panda cubs were born by artificial insemination in 2006 and 30
of them have survived, said spokesperson Cao Qingyao, adding that both figures
hit records.
Twenty-nine of the surviving panda cubs were bred by zoologists in
Southwest China's Sichuan Province: 17 were born at the Wolong Giant Panda
Protection and Research Center and 12 at the Chengdu Research Base. The other
panda was bred at Chongqing Zoo.
Sources with the forestry administration said earlier that more than 30
female pandas nationwide were inseminated in spring, including one at Beijing
Zoo and one in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
A panda cub was born at Beijing Zoo but it died prematurely and the attempt
in Shaanxi was not successful, according to the sources.
China has been raising pandas through artificial insemination and breeding
for nearly 50 years.
Meanwhile, experts estimate that there are about 1,600 pandas living in the
wild in China. The vast majority of them -- about 1,100 -- live in one of the 59
natural reserves that China had setup for pandas by the end of 2006.
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