The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Dujiangyan Field Research Center for Giant Pandas will receive it's first pandas at the end of 2011
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Dujiangyan Field Research Center for Giant Pandas, the world’s first giant panda reintroduction center, has completed the first stage of its construction. Administrators are now making plans to receive the first giant pandas at the Center at the end of December 2011.
Located in Majiagou, Yutang Town, with a total area of 2004 mu and a total investment of RMB 200 million, the center will be home to 30 to 40 giant pandas, 50 to 100 red pandas, and other wild animals. Journalists from the Tianfu Morning Paper learned from the Chengdu Forestry and Garden Bureau that this center is expected to receive 30 to 40 giant pandas after its completion in 2012.
The construction started in May 2010 and it is divided into three parts. There is the experimental area, semi-wild reintroduction area and reintroduction area. After completion, this center will be used to make preparations for the giant panda reintroduction.
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