AR-News: (Singapore) Pandas earn $10m a year

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

BEIJING - Fourteen pandas on loan overseas bring in more than 50 million yuan 
(S$10 million) a year for Sichuan province, Chinese media reported yesterday.

Foreign-born giant panda Hua Mei arriving in Chengdu. The female panda is 
going to the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Centre to find a mate. -- AP
Forestry official Li Guoming said the 'income' from the United States, Japan, 
Thailand and other nations is used for environmental protection work in 
Sichuan, where about 800 of the rare animals live.
Their numbers have been depleted by low fertility, logging, poaching and 
periodic shortages of their staple food, bamboo.
Only about 1,000 of them are thought to exist in the wild and about 150 in 
captivity, mainly in China.




full story:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,235216,00.htm

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