Friday, July 1, 2011

China's Giant Panda Population Census

Unlike the population census, the census was conducted by officers of ruse seeking traces. Giant Panda of China. (AP Photo)

VIVAnews – The Chinese Government began to do a census of the number of giant pandas in the Interior forest mountains Min on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Unlike the giant panda population census, the census officer was done by looking for traces of the ruse.

According to the page of The Telegraph, as many as 70 people trace search will be deployed in Wanglang nature sanctuary in the Min is located in the province of Sichuan. They will expire in 10 days jungle forests and bamboo splitting looking for rare animal fat.

Looking for a panda in the middle of the rerimbunan tree is not easy. Especially asylum Wanglang nature reserve has an area of 32 hectares and the peaks of up to 7000 feet above sea level. The more difficult because the panda is an animal loner who live spread. To keep track of pandas, the seekers rely on dirt tracks that were left out.
Panda poop like a tutorial for the officers. At least panda waste water as much as 40 times a day. Panda poop like a personal identity, as well as any dirt have different DNA. The officers not only count the number of pandas, they are also tasked with determining the age and changes in the habitat of these animals.

"This is the fourth since the census conducted in the 1970s census," said China's Forestry Bureau officer, Xuyu.

The census is conducted every 10 years. The previous census in 2001 showed there were still in the wild 1.596 panda of China. This year's estimated the number increased to 3000 tail, following the good protection of panda by the Chinese Government. In addition to the panda, the forest mountains Min also is home to leopards, monkeys and rare Golden Yunnan China goat called Takin. (eh)

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