Wolong nature reserve

	Wolong nature reserve
	Young panda in the breeding station
location	Sichuan , People's Republic of China
surface	2000 km²
WDPA ID	95695
Geographical location	31 ° 2 ′ N , 103 ° 11 ′ E Coordinates: 31 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ N , 103 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E
Setup date	1980

The Wolong Nature Reserve ( Chinese 臥龍自然保護區 / 卧龙自然保护区 , Pinyin Wòlóng Zìrán Bǎohùqū ) is a protected area near the municipality of Wolong in Wenchuan County in the west of the Chinese province of Sichuan .

description

The Wolong nature reserve extends over 2000 square kilometers of mountain forest and was established in June 1980 primarily to protect the giant panda , about 10% of the total wild population of which live here. The WWF provided around one million US dollars to set up the area. There is also a giant panda research and breeding station in the area (Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base). Various breeding programs there led to the birth of 86 panda cubs by 2010. Another panda center is located in nearby Chengdu , the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding .

The destruction of the natural habitats in the reserve continues and is in some cases even higher than in adjacent areas outside the protected area.

For the wildlife of the reserve include not only the giant pandas and leopards , Dhole and smaller predators such as Asian golden cats , pandas , pigs badgers and Yellow-throated marten . The ungulates are by Sichuan takins , wild boar , musk deer , serow , Gorale , Schopf deer and sambar deer represented. Gold stump noses and flying squirrels ( Trogopterus xanthipes ) live in the tops, while bamboo rats and porcupines live on the ground . By the temperature differences arising from the different altitudes, and the location in a transition area meet here tropical species such as clouded leopard and sambar deer on the northern animals such as white-lipped deer , snow leopard and northern lynx.

Web links

Commons : Wolong Nature Reserve - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Home of the last of the giant pandas

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Giant Panda: Saved from Extinction. WWF Germany , accessed April 29, 2016 .
↑ J. Liu, M. Linderman, Z. Ouyang, L. An, J. Yang, H. Zhang: Ecological degradation in protected areas: the case of Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas. In: Science. 292 (5514), Apr 6, 2001, pp. 98-101.
↑ Kenneth G. Johnson, Wang Wei, Donald G. Reid, Hu Jinchu: Food Habits of Asiatic Leopards ( Panthera pardus fusea ) in Wolong Reserve, Sichuan, China. In: Journal of Mammalogy . Vol. 74, no. 3, Aug., 1993, pp. 646-650.
^ William Riley, Laura Riley: Nature's Strongholds. The World's Great Wildlife Reserves. Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12219-9 .

[1] Jump up ↑ Giant Panda: Saved from Extinction. WWF Germany , accessed April 29, 2016 .

[2] J. Liu, M. Linderman, Z. Ouyang, L. An, J. Yang, H. Zhang: Ecological degradation in protected areas: the case of Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas. In: Science. 292 (5514), Apr 6, 2001, pp. 98-101.

[3] Kenneth G. Johnson, Wang Wei, Donald G. Reid, Hu Jinchu: Food Habits of Asiatic Leopards ( Panthera pardus fusea ) in Wolong Reserve, Sichuan, China. In: Journal of Mammalogy . Vol. 74, no. 3, Aug., 1993, pp. 646-650.

[4] William Riley, Laura Riley: Nature's Strongholds. The World's Great Wildlife Reserves. Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12219-9 .