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Associated PressPandas' Expanding Habitat Area in ChinaSaturday July 28, 2007 5:01 AM
BEIJING (AP) - China's endangered pandas have expanded their
habitat areas in bamboo forests in two western provinces,
researchers have found by tracking their droppings, state media
reported Saturday.
Xinhua News Agency said forestry researchers have identified
panda droppings in areas beyond known habitats bordering
northwestern Gansu province and southwestern Sichuan
province.
“This indicates an expansion of the giant panda's habitat - and
probably of its population, too,” Huang Huali, vice director of
the Baishuijiang Nature Reserve Administration, was quoted as
saying.
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