Good News from Giant Panda: Population Size Might Be Bigger than Thought

摘要

Recent research by a Sino-UK team led by WEI Fuwen from the CAS Institute of Zoology brought about a good piece of news to the millions of people who are concerned about the fate of the giant panda. As reported in the June 20 issue of Current Biology, an international journal of biochemistry and molecular biology, the researchers revealed that the number of the rare and endangered animal in a key panda reserve is about 100 percent higher than previously thought.