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Will China's captive-bred pandas survive?

After one panda dies, China considers which to release next.

Chinese officials confirmed this week that they intend to continue releasing captive-bred pandas into the wild, despite the tragic death of the programme's pilot panda earlier this year.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on June 15, 2007
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Correction; not everyone considers the WWF to be a conservation group.Animal rightists?

Posted by: Cory | June 19, 2007 03:15 PM

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