Pandas to Be Trained for Survival in Wild
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A giant panda plays at the Yunnan Wildlife Park in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 6, 2010. Giant pandas in the zoo started to enjoy their time outdoor as the temperature in Kunming had reached up to 25 degrees. [Xinhua]
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A giant panda eats with leisure at its new habitat, inside the Giant Panda Ecological Happyland, at Xiuning County, east China's Anhui Province, April 28, 2010. A triplet of giant pandas bred at the Bifengxia Valley Panda-Breeding Base in Ya'an of Sichuan Province was transferred to Xiuning on April 23 and make their debuts with visitors here as of the day. [Xinhua]
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China will start building a center at the end of May to train giant pandas born in captivity to live in the wild, experts said Wednesday.
The center would be located in Dujiangyan City, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the home province of giant pandas, said Zhang Zhihe, the head of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and founder of the center.
At a cost of 60 million yuan (US$8.79 million), the center will include an experimental zone covering 130 mu (8.7 hectares) and 1,892 mu of woodlands, Zhang said.
(Xinhua News Agency May 20, 2010)