China: Big panda lacks food

Large pandas in China are forced to migrate to remote mountainous areas due to lack of food. This situation raises concerns about the future of this rare animal.

According to Yang Xuyu, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Wildlife Conservation Center, the favorite food of big pandas is bamboo, but the bamboo forests in this province are entering the flowering season in 60-year cycles and will die before the new bamboo forest grows, and this threatens the survival of the big panda.

Although no wild pandas have been found so far due to starvation, up to 80% of the current bamboo forests cannot be eaten: no pandas will touch flowering bamboo trees. .

There are about 1,200 pandas living in the mountains of Sichuan province, where there are about 40 large panda reserves of large and small size. In the 1980s, hundreds of pandas in the province starved to death when bamboo forests in many areas preserved flowers and died.

According to Xinhua news agency , China's forestry agency is launching a campaign to rescue pandas, working with the Wildlife Conservation Fund to find a solution to migrate pandas to their old habitat.

Big panda at a panda protection center in Sichuan province (Photo: AP)

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