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18 Quake-Affected Giant Pandas Return Home
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 17:53
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18 Giant Pandas return to their newly refurbished habitat in southwest China's Wolong National Nature Reserve, after a deadly earthquake displaced them 4 years ago. Full story: The earthquake-hit panda habitat in southwest China's Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province reopened for a trial operation on Tuesday, with 18 pandas having moved in 2 weeks ago. Some of the 18 pandas used to live in the world's largest giant panda breeding center, affiliated with China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. The Center was severely damaged in a deadly earthquake four years ago, leaving 32 panda pens flattened and its infrastructure ruined, killing one panda and injuring another, with still another missing. The quake had left more than 60 pandas homeless, among which 32 were temporarily adopted by zoos in other cities and others were displaced to Bifengxia Panda Base, roughly 125 miles southwest from Wolong. Buildings in the new panda base are said to be built in seismic design, with fortification intensity above eight—a degree that may cause cracks in hard dry soils, cause treetop breakage and potential deaths from building destruction—under the China Seismic Intensity Scale. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region financed the new almost 66 thousand square-foot panda base. [Zhang Hemin, Director, Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas]: “Once the reconstruction project is finished, the Wolong new panda base and the …
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