Saving Endangered Red Panda from Extinction

WONG:
India's Himalayan state of Sikkim is making efforts to save the red panda, a rare and endangered animal species, from extinction. Theyve just started a program for conservation and breeding. Lets take a look.

STORY:
The Himalayan Zoological Park in collaboration with the state forest department has initiated a program for the conservation and breeding of red panda at a natural enclosure in the park.

[Gut Lepcha, Himalayan Zoological Park]:
"The red panda is an endangered species. We are in an initial stage now and we have already set up in a small venture breading center for red pandas. Presently we have six animals, two females and four males. In the conservation breeding program we have been successful since 1999 when a male was brought from Darjeeling zoo and a female was brought from Holland.

A little six-month-old male panda was born in June at the breeding center.

Currently, there are six adult red pandas in the park.

The state government has asked the forest department to draft a master plan for the zoo which includes the architectural remodeling of the red panda enclosure, and various programs for its conservation and breeding.

The state government is very keen to expand red panda breeding and also to initiate similar programs for snow leopards.

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[soniclugia9]

my friends fav animal is red panda so i made a tribute video to them

[christinelucas]

They are beautiful creatures and deserve to be saved

[DarthVenomAizen]

hope the red panda survives extinction