Chinese state media reported today that the country has started its once-a-decade panda census, the fourth tallying of the endangered species since it first began in the 1970s. 70 panda trackers are being trained during a pilot survey in the Wanglang National Reserve, in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province. According to Yang Xuyu, a forestry official, that particular nature reserve is believed to have the largest number of wild পাণ্ডা in the country.

Before আপনি get so jealous of these panda trackers' jobs that আপনি quit your own, know that much of panda tracking actually involves collecting...

Beijing, June 18 (IANS) Giant পাণ্ডা in China's research centres have become 'spoilt' because of the extra care taken দ্বারা experts for these lovable creatures that were once on the verge of extinction.
Experts ব্যক্ত পাণ্ডা should be প্রদত্ত 'less care' than they are currently used to, as it may prevent them from adapting to life in the wild.
'It is unfair for the জন্তু জানোয়ার to breed them in captivity like pets,' Zhang Jinyuan, deputy head of the Beijing Zoo, was quoted as saying দ্বারা the Shanghai Daily.
Most panda cubs begin life in an incubator, far from the natural touch of their mother. These pandas...