New plan drafted to save the panda.New plan drafted to save the panda Despite extensive efforts to protect thegiant panda, over the past 10 years its population in China appears to have been more than decimated, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Forestry and the Swiss-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. ) International. The decline results from sustained human encroachment on the animal's habitat. To counter this threat, WWF consultant John McKinnon John Walter McKinnon, (b. 1950), New Zealand diplomat and public servant. McKinnon was educated at Nelson College, Victoria University of Wellington, and the London School of Economics. and Qiu Minjiang, a Chinese environment official, have drafted a management strategy calling for an immediate strengthening of measures by the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
It calls not only for greater enforcementof regulations in China's existing 12 panda reserves, but also for establishing a new class of forests called "panda management ranges.' As at the reserves, the plan would prohibit hunting, grazing, human settlement, agriculture and burning in the ranges. Logged areas would be reforested with indigenous species and bamboo. On panda habitats outside ranges and reserves, the strategy recommends halting all new human settlement, maintaining forest cover and strictly enforcing panda protection laws. Another key recommendation is thereestablishment and protection of panda migration corridors to link small, nowisolated subpopulations. Satellite photos indicate that most pandas--shy, solitary inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. of China's mountainous bamboo forests--live in groups of fewer than 50, many in groups of as few as 10. Once a group falls to 20 pandas, its members "can be expected to become extinct within a few generations,' WWF says. England's Prince Philip Noun 1. Prince Philip - Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921) Duke of Edinburgh, Philip , president ofWWF International, announced the strategy last week at the press conference launching a fund-raising campaign Noun 1. fund-raising campaign - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported to help finance China's efforts to save the remaining 800 to 1,000 wild pandas. Said Prince Philip, "Without this joint effort by the Chinese and WWF we would be condemning the panda to extinction as surely as if we were to go out and deliberately exterminate them.' |
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