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2012-05-07 Pandas at Wolong and Bifengxia

Reintroducing Pandas to the wild is a tricky business. If the animal is too habituated to humans it will struggle to survive on its own in the wild. At Wolong, therefore, the scientists have mother Pandas give birth and raise their cubs in increasingly semi-wild enclosures to prepare the cub for future release. Tsao Tsao, pictured here, lives with her two year old cub, Tao Tao, in a "Phase 3" reintroduction enclosure, a 2.5 square kilometre enclosure on a mountainside above the Wolong base. It is hoped that Tao Tao might eventually be released into the wild.

The breeding centre at Bifengxia, meanwhile, has been very successfully breeding captive Pandas for a number of years, and a large number of baby, adolescent and adult Pandas reside there. It is also where many Pandas were relocated after the 2008 Sichan Earthquake damaged the Wolong Panda base.
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