What Happened : Chinese conservation officials have announced that Giant Pandas are no longer an endangered species. After years of research and work, their population rose to 1800 and their status has been updated to “vulnerable.”
Details: Giant pandas are infamously difficult to breed, with females only able to become pregnant for 24 to 72 hours each year. China’s conservations methods have included setting up panda reserves, relocating residents from panda habitats, training local people to be rangers and breeding pandas in captivity. Decades of practicing these conservations helped drive the creatures’ population in the wild up to 1,800
Internationally, the giant panda has been considered “vulnerable” for five years. The International Union for Conservation of Nature removed giant pandas from its list of endangered species in 2016 — a decision that Chinese officials challenged at the time. “If we downgrade their conservation status, or neglect or relax our conservation work, the populations and habitats of giant pandas could still suffer irreversible loss and our achievements would be quickly lost,” China’s State Forestry Administration had stated at that time. “Therefore, we’re not being alarmist by continuing to emphasize the panda species’ endangered status.” Click here to see more from Propergaanda.