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The world's most famous panda reserve wants to find a new home after its current one was badly damaged by this month's deadly earthquake in China.


Two pandas from the Wolong reserve eat bamboo on Saturday after being moved to the Beijing Zoo.
3 of 3 "It's better to move, I think," Zhang Hemin, the chief of the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve, said by phone Thursday.

The Wolong reserve is just 20 miles from the epicenter of the May 12 quake, which has killed more than 68,000 people, including five reserve staff members.

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BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- When eight 2-year-old pandas arrived at Beijing Zoo on Saturday after a long journey from their quake-damaged home Wolong reserve center, both the keepers and tourists cheered.

As the "national treasures", the eight cubs, flown to Beijing by a special charted plane, had narrowly escaped death in the recent 8.0-magnitude quake that rocked southwest China's Sichuan and has claimed more than 65,000 lives, including six staff members at Wolong Nature Reserve.



8 pandas from China earthquake zone go to Beijing | Seattle Times Newspaper

Wolong pandas start life anew in Beijing