China aims for 2,200 wild pandas by 2025
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A panda cub in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

China is looking to expand the population of wild giant pandas by 2,200 within the next decade.

In the animals' habitat in southwest China, the number for wild pandas has climbed to 1,864, while 422 are now breeding in captivity.

The country will also expand pandas' habitat, mostly in provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi, and work to release more captive ones into the wild.

Earlier this year, after decades of conservation, giant pandas are no longer endangered, announced the World Wildlife Fund.

The species was downgraded to "vulnerable" from "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), China now has 67 panda reserves.

 

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