National Parks Protect Wild Panda Population
Author: Go Chengdu 2022-03-14

In Baoxing County in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local forestry authorities have spotted a pair of wild giant pandas in the local giant panda national park.

 

Video footage recorded by an infrared camera captured the panda cub following its mother to a tree hole to rest on 5 March. The little panda is believed to be around half a year old, said the staff of the local protection station.

 

Giant panda mother and cub captured on 5 March 2022 by an infrared camera

(Photo by Baoxing administration and protection station of the Giant Panda National Park)

 

The pair was in the core protected area administered by Baoxing County under the Giant Panda National Park at an altitude between 2,500 to 3,800 meters.

 

In 2018, the Giant Panda National Park was established. Covering a total of 27,000 square km, the park connects fragmented habitats in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu and protects more than 70 percent of the country's wild panda population.

 

In Sichuan alone, where 87 percent of the park is located, six ecological corridors have been established in recent years, which not only benefit giant pandas but are also favorable for the migration of other animals.

 

The image captured by an infrared camera on 24 July 2019 shows a pair of sub-adult giant panda twins at Wolong National Nature Reserve in Southwest China's Sichuan province.

(Photo by Xinhua News)

 

Unlike parks in the general sense that are only for sightseeing and leisure, commercial developments are prohibited in the national parks, which are all put under the national redline for ecological conservation, and subject to the strictest protection.

 

The national parks are home to the most important and unique natural geological landscapes and essential natural heritage and the foundation for the country's efforts at biological diversity conservation.

 

These parks are ideal sites for popularizing science, research, and education. More national parks of such scales will be established in the foreseeable future. They will be legacies passed down to future generations.

 

 

Edited by Zhu Haiyue

Source: Xinhua News  China Daily

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