Un panda gigante si inerpica su un albero a una nuova base della Cina conservazione e centro di ricerca per il panda gigante nel villaggio Gengda, Wolong county, Aba T
A giant panda climbs up a tree at a new base of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Gengda village, Wolong county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chinas Sichuan province, 30 October 2012. A new giant panda base in southwest Chinas Sichuan Province opened Tuesday (30 October 2012) with the first batch of 18 pandas returning home, four years after their old habitat was destroyed by a massive earthquake. It marks the return of the first batch of giant pandas to the Wolong nature reserve since the magnitude-8.0 earthquake on May 12, 2008, the reserves administration authorities said. The disaster left more than 80, 000 people dead or missing. Thirty-two giant pandas at the Wolong base of China Panda Protection and Research Center were removed to parks nationwide. Another 30 were relocated to the Bifeng gorge base in YaAn of Sichuan after their habitat was severely damaged by the earthquake. The new base, funded by the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, can accommodate 59 giant pandas with a floor area of 19, 845 square meters, according to authorities.
