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By Pan Wenshi,William J. Mcshea,David Garshelis,Wang Dajun,Richard B. Harris

From 1984 via 1995 a small band of ecologists led by way of Pan Wenshi from Peking collage carried out a learn of untamed great pandas within the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This undertaking was once the 1st Chinese-led conservation venture in China and was once carried out in the course of an important transition interval in chinese language historical past, because the state opened its society and technological know-how to the realm. The undertaking fascinated with behavioral commentary of untamed great pandas, yet advanced to incorporate body structure, food, ecology, land-use coverage, and inhabitants biology because the employees turned extra acutely aware that the problems with captive pandas (assisted replica, strange vitamin, and genetic inbreeding) weren't the main serious to survival of untamed populations. it's obtrusive during this paintings that, because the scientists won wisdom, they got here to work out immense panda conservation as wrapped in panorama ecology and human/wildlife interactions. the gang used to be seminal within the chinese language government's enactment of a logging ban to their learn region via advocating for pandas on the nationwide point. The venture used to be summarized in a 2001 quantity, yet its e-book in Mandarin restricted its impact at the better conservation group. This English model of the unique paintings interprets, condenses, and refines the unique quantity, with additional contextual chapters at the significance of this quantity and the way our figuring out of big panda conservation is formed by way of this pioneering box work.

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