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Be the next Pambassador!

4 The Love Of Animals

Do you love pandas? This year’s theme is “PandaQuest” which shifts the focus from panda breeding and rehabilitation in captivity to re-introduction in the wild. Pambassador finalists will participate in the current panda release plan, designed to re-introduce captive bears into the wild.

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Birding in the Dark

10,000 Birds

It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. Either way, it just ain’t fair !!!

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

The Great Parrotbill recently unsuccessfully petitioned to be renamed to Giant Parrotbill, citing the panda example as proof of the benefits of having this name. By 2013, this ratio had increased to 7.2 ( source ). While Giant Pandas are celebrated in today’s China, this was not always the case.

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