Chinese state media reported today that the country has started its once-a-decade panda census, the fourth tallying of the endangered species since it first began in the 1970s. 70 panda trackers are being trained during a pilot survey in the Wanglang National Reserve, in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province. According to Yang Xuyu, a forestry official, that particular nature reserve is believed to have the largest number of wild 熊猫 in the country.
Before 你 get so jealous of these panda trackers' jobs that 你 quit your own, know that much of panda tracking actually involves collecting...
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