January 4, the reporter from the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base learned that after a year of construction, located in Dujiangyan City, Yutang Town Majiagou the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Center released into the wild "Chinese Panda Valley" a project has been completed, After training the first batch of six wild giant pandas will be officially settled on 11 January, the official opening of the Chengdu giant panda released into the wild times.
By the Dujiangyan City and Chengdu Giant Panda Base jointly invested 300 million yuan to build the "Panda Valley", the overall planning of land 2004 acres, of which 1870 acres of forest land leased, the project is in the range of giant panda habitat, the indicators are in line with the giant panda living conditions. Research into the wild entirely completed, will be stocking 30-40, 50-100 giant pandas (only) red pandas and other associated wildlife.
6 of the first settled in "Panda Valley" sub-adult giant pandas belong to the equivalent period of human children, the rapid development, large bolder, with a strong ability to adapt to survive, including a pair of twins. Chengdu Panda Base took nearly one year, from the pedigree, health, genetic background, sex ratio, and many other strictly observed, and ultimately from the existing 108 set up the team by selecting giant pandas into the wild "advance." Recently, the base has been carried out on 6 wild panda training.
"Giant panda released into the wild success, depending on whether the reintroduction of the wild panda survival, can integrate into the wild panda population and breeding in the wild environment, but also whether the normal offspring viability and reproductive capacity, etc., this process is long. "Zhang, director of Chengdu Giant Panda Base and presentations over the years, the giant panda breeding base in a total of 161 109 births Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 119 survived, the current total of 108 giant pandas in captivity, is the world's largest artificial breeding of giant panda populations. "This unique self-sustaining populations have the ability to make the reintroduction has been a solid foundation seed sources."
Source: Sichuan Daily
