Two giant pandas play at a panda reserve in Sichuan, July 7. (Photo/CNS) |
A national
park devoted to giant panda conservation could be the best way to protect the
species, at least Southwest China's Sichuan provincial forestry department said
on Saturday.
Yao Sidan,
head of the department, put forward the idea of a national park for giant
pandas in a provincial environmental plan released Friday.
A repackaging
of current natural reserves, forestry and wetland parks in western Sichuan, the
national park would be a major innovation in the protection of the endangered
species, Yao said.
The plan
calls for the giant panda habitat to be no less than 26.5 million mu (1.77
million hectares), and be established by 2020.
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