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Автор: Lindburg D. Baragona K.
Издательство: University of California Press
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 0-520-23867-2
Количество страниц: 326
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6 Мб
Каталожный номер: 13993
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When westerners first visited the home of the panda we were at the primitive stage of shooting or grabbing them. Understandably, we were banned from the locality, and gradually we learned to value and appreciate pandas. Since then they have received adoration a-plenty, but their natural history was almost completely unstudied and there seemed a considerable danger that they might be lost forever. Now, at last, they are starting to get the serious attention they deserve. Chinese and western scientists are working together to investigate the ecology of the giant panda, its life in the wild and its natural behaviour. These are vital steps in devising a programme for its conservation, a programme in which captive pandas may play an important part as a sort of backstop against the extinction of this rare and extraordinary animal. For
the pressure is still on the wild panda: predators, the disappearance of bamboo from large areas, and the burgeoning human population of the Far East all work against them. The Chinese authorities, however, have made an outstanding commitment to the preservation of the pandas, have already protected vast areas, and are fighting
the threat of panda food shortages. The future now begins to look hopeful and there is a good chance that the world will salvage one of its most exotic and enigmatic natural
treasures: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, the fabulous giant panda.
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