Wolong National Nature Reserve

Young Panda in the breeding station

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The Wolong Nature Reserve is situated close to the large village in Wenchuan Wolong in western China's Sichuan province. It extends over 2000 square kilometers of mountain forest and was primarily for the protection of giant pandas set up in June 1980, live from its entire wild population about 10 % here. In the area there is also a research and breeding center for giant pandas. Several breeding programs have led there by 2010 to the birth of 86 panda cubs.

The destruction of natural habitats in the Reserve stops and is sometimes even higher than in adjacent areas outside the reserve.

For the wildlife of the reserve next to the Great Pandas are also leopards, Dhole and smaller predators such as Asiatic Golden Cat, Cats bear, hog badgers and Yellow-throated marten. The ungulates are represented by Sichuan takins, wild boar, musk deer, Seraue, Goral, Schopf deer and sambar deer. In the tops Golden Monkey noses and flying squirrels live ( Trogopterus xanthipes ), on the ground live bamboo rats and porcupines. Due to the temperature differences arising from the different altitudes, and the location in a transition area meet here tropical species such as clouded leopards and sambar deer on northern animals such as white-lipped deer, snow leopards and lynxes North