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PRODIGIOUS PANDA PRESERVE. A panda rests at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda
Breeding in Chengdu, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, in this file photo. China is planning to create
a preserve for the giant panda that will be three times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S.
The Xinhua News Agency says the panda preserve will incorporate parts of three western provinces to provide
an unbroken range for the endangered animals in which they can meet and mate in the interests of enriching
their gene pool. (Chinatopix via AP, File)
China plans panda preserve three
times the size of Yellowstone park
harvesting and livestock grazing, Xinhua
said.
Preservation of the species is further
hindered by provincial borders between
Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi that
enforced different standards on protected
land.
The new preserve will merge 67 smaller
reserves for pandas and protect another
8,000 endangered animals and plants,
Xinhua said.
“Unlike nature reserves, the park does
not stand alone. China will formulate an
overall plan for the national park system.
It will be a haven for biodiversity and
provide protection for the whole ecological
system,” Hou Rong, director of the
Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda
Breeding in Sichuan province, was quoted
as saying.
The giant panda preserve will join eight
other existing national parks aimed at
protecting endangered species and the
ecology of land lying at the headwaters of
major rivers such as the Yellow and
Yangtze.
BEIJING (AP) — China is planning to
create a preserve for the giant panda that
will be three times the size of Yellowstone
National Park in the western United
States.
The panda preserve will link parts of
three western provinces to provide an
unbroken range for the endangered
animals in which they can meet and mate
in the interests of enriching their gene
pool, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xinhua said about 170,000 people will
have to be moved elsewhere to make way
for the 10,476-square-mile preserve.
Giant pandas are China’s unofficial na-
tional mascot and live mainly in the moun-
tains of Sichuan, with some in neighboring
Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. An
estimated 1,864 live in the wild, where
they are threatened chiefly with habitat
loss, and another 200 in captivity.
Residents of the future park area will be
offered homes and jobs, some as guides.
Although they had lived in the area for
generations, they were disrupting the lives
of the pandas with their bamboo
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) —
Malaysian authorities say they have
seized 18 rhino horns believed to have
been smuggled into the country from
Mozambique.
Airport customs director Hamzah
Sundang said the horns were flown
from Mozambique and transited in Doha
before arriving at the Kuala Lumpur
airport. He said the horns, which weighed
51.4 kilograms (113 pounds) and were
worth 13.6 million ringgit ($3.1 million),
had been declared as art objects in a forged
air bill with a fake final destination.
Hamzah said custom officials made the
seizure at the airport cargo warehouse
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Rhino horns are believed to have
medicinal properties and are in high
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