Giant panda no longer Endangered

[Nutso]

http://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/gi ... endangered

In a welcome piece of good news for the world’s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach can help save our planet’s vanishing biodiversity.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the positive change to the giant panda’s official status in the Red List of Threatened Species, pointing to the 17% rise in the population in the decade up to 2014, when a nationwide census found 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China.

[Bryan Moore]

http://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/gi ... endangered

In a welcome piece of good news for the world’s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach can help save our planet’s vanishing biodiversity.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the positive change to the giant panda’s official status in the Red List of Threatened Species, pointing to the 17% rise in the population in the decade up to 2014, when a nationwide census found 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China.

While that's great news, something seems a bit off about a species that doesn't seem to want to reproduce on it's own...

[IanKennedy]

The problem with Panda's in captivity was a human one. They kept the pair away from each other for long period and the tried to get them to mate. They lately figured out that the male needs to smell the urine of the female in order to trigger mating. Since that discovery things have gone a lot better. The Chinese likley knew this for some time as their breeding program has been quite successful for a long time. They just didn't tell the people they loaned Pandas what to do.

In the wild they do OK, except for the fact that their living area is reducing and causing the problem.