Shaanxi Qinling Giant Panda Breeding Base

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The base is located at the Shaanxi Salvage and Breeding Research Center for Endangered Wild Animals in Zhouzhi county on the northern side of the Qinling Mountains.Xi'an - Shaanxi Qinling Giant Panda Breeding Base for giant pandas in northwest China's Shaanxi Province in a another effort to save the highly endangered species from extinction.Shaanxi Qinling Giant Panda Breeding Base,With an investment of 10.2 million U.S. dollars, the Qinling giant panda breeding base will cover 287 hectares.

Giant pandas are notoriously unproductive. There are only about1,500 of the much-loved black and white creatures left in the wildin China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and the giant pandas living in the Qinling have been separated geographically for 50,000 years from those in Sichuan.There are about 1,600 giant pandas living in the wild, mostly in southwestern Sichuan Province and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.A recent survey indicated that the number of giant pandas roaming in the wild of Shaanxi has reached 340 thanks to effective protection measures.The Qinling subspecies of giant panda in Shaanxi has smaller but rounder heads than the Sichuan subspecies. A total of 273 Qinling giant pandas now live in their 606,800-hectare habitat.

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