Friday 16 March 2018

Chinese panda park to be twice the size of Yosemite



National park will bolster local economy while providing animals with unbroken habitat

Associated Press in Beijing
Thu 8 Mar 2018 12.03 GMTLast modified on Thu 8 Mar 2018 22.00 GMT

The Bank of China has pledged at least 10bn yuan (£1.1bn) to create a vast panda conservation park in south-west Sichuan province, the Chinese forestry ministry has said.

The Sichuan branch of the central bank signed an agreement with the provincial government to finance the vast national park’s construction by 2023. The park aims to bolster the local economy while providing the endangered animals with an unbroken range in which they can meet and mate with other pandas in order to enrich their gene pool.

The ministry said the park will measure 2m hectares (5m acres), making it more than twice the size of Yellowstone national park in the US.

Zhang Weichao, a Sichuan official involved in the park planning, told the state-run China Daily the agreement would help alleviate poverty among the 170,000 people living within the project’s proposed territory.

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