(FOCUS)CHINA-SICHUAN-GIANT PANDA-REINTRODUCTION (CN)

(FOCUS)CHINA-SICHUAN-GIANT PANDA-REINTRODUCTION (CN)

(240629) -- WOLONG, June 29, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This file photo taken on June 4, 2020 shows a giant panda resting on a tree during wild training at Tiantai Mountain in Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province. In recent years, China has made significant progress in panda conservation through a series of measures, including forest and wildlife protection as well as the construction of giant panda national parks. The wild giant panda population in China has grown from about 1,100 in the 1980s to nearly 1,900. Giant panda reintroduction refers to releasing captive-bred giant pandas to their historical distribution areas to live and reproduce after acclimatization training so as to rebuild the wild population of the species. China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) started a reintroduction program in 2003. It has reintroduced eleven pandas into the wild, nine of which survived. In the future, the center will continue to train more individ

CHINA-CHENGDU-ENDANGERED PLANT-REDISCOVERY (CN)

CHINA-CHENGDU-ENDANGERED PLANT-REDISCOVERY (CN)

(220822) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken by researcher Hu Jun on Aug. 10, 2021 shows the Euonymus aquifolium in the wild. According to the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), researchers have rediscovered a critically endangered plant, Euonymus aquifolium, during China's second scientific research survey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Euonymus aquifolium is a rare and vegetatively distinctive species, and the rediscovery by Chinese researchers uncovered the only presently confirmed living individuals more than 110 years after a single gathering collected by British scientist E.H. Wilson in 1908, according to a research article published in the journal PhytoKeys. "I was lucky. Some experts have been looking for it for more than a decade, and some even fell down mountains during the expedition, but to no avail." said Hu Jun, assistant researcher of the institute. During the scientific expedition along the southeastern slope of Mt. Gongga, 15 individ