2024-08-26 06:40:37
This number would be a “significant” increase since the 1980s, when the total number of these animals was about 1,100.
The population of giant pandas living in the wild in China is now close to 1,900. The figure is painted as a “significant” increase since the 1980s, when they numbered about 1,100, the country’s National Forest Administration announced.
The increase is largely due to “intense protection efforts” of this kind that the country is carrying out. The information was confirmed by Zhang Yue, deputy director of the department of State Institution Wildlife Conservationquoted by the official Xinhua agency.
The Giant Panda National Park opened in October 2021 and covers nearly 22,000 square kilometers, providing protected habitat for 72 percent of the wild-living pandas in China, Zhang said.
The reserve covers territory in the provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu in central-western China.
According to data from the Forest Administration, protected areas related to giant pandas have increased since 2012 from 1.39 to 2.58 million hectaressomething that has had an impact on the sustainable development of the population of this animal.
In addition to pandas in the wild, The 728 pandas living in captivity have also increased in number.with 46 births registered last year.
Zhang also highlighted the increase in the “genetic diversity” of these animals, a species endemic to China that the country considers a “national treasure.”
By: EL NACIONAL.com