Scientists have released four pregnant captive pandas into a large but fenced-in area of bamboo forest in the hope that their cubs – once born – will take to life in the wild. It sounds like a convoluted reintroduction protocol
Pandas don’t like roads
Chinese geneticists make a sound case for panda corridors in some of the most fragmented panda habitat there is. A paper published online today in the open-access journal BMC Genetics is another important milestone in the advance of panda science.
Pandas for kiwis?
New Zealand wants to swap kiwis for pandas. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key appears to be up for trying to bring down the price of renting a pair of pandas from the People’s Republic of China by offering up