中国保护大熊猫研究中心简介

　　中国保护大熊猫研究中心简介

　　1980年，中国政府与世界自然基金会（WWF）在卧龙自然保护区合作建立了中国保护大熊猫研究中心。研究中心坐落于享有天然动植物基因库和大熊猫王国的四川卧龙国家级自然保护区腹地，其主要任务和目的是：围绕大熊猫的繁育，增加大熊猫的数量进行应用基础研究，综合开展以大熊猫为主的珍稀野生动物的饲养、繁殖、疾病防治、育幼、行为、生态、生理生化、内分泌、遗传等领域的研究，实现长期保存该物种的目的。

　　经过二十多年的不懈努力, 研究中心在大熊猫的科研保护领域取得了重大进展，全面攻克了长期制约圈养大熊猫种群发展的繁育中的三大难关（发情难、配种受孕难及育幼成活难），实现了圈养大熊猫种群数量持续稳步增长，拥有一个具有活力、可自我维持和发展的圈养大熊猫种群。截止到2007年底，研究中心大熊猫圈养种群数量已经达到128只，是目前世界最大的大熊猫圈养种群，约占总数的60%。2003年，研究中心率先启动了人工繁殖大熊猫的野化培训与放归研究，是大熊猫保护进程中的重要里程碑。

　　通过多年的发展，研究中心已发展成为世界范围内最大的大熊猫繁育和研究基地，成为国内外大熊猫科普教育和科研合作需求大熊猫的主要输出基地，是国内、国际科研合作与交流的重要平台，为大熊猫科研和保护事业作出了重要贡献。

　　China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda

　　In 1980, through the cooperation between the Chinese government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (Wolong Research Center) was founded.

　　The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda is located at Wolong Nature Reserve. The reserve is a highly diverse ecological site with abundant animals and plants. With the attitude of 1900m, it provides a plentiful natural habitat for the giant pandas.

　　The Wolong Research Center aims to conduct basic research into the breeding of giant pandas and increase the population number for the application research. It also studies mfunction(iterator) { var result = false; this.each(function(value, index) { if (result = !!(iterator || Prototype.K)(value, index)) throw $break; }); return result; } other aspects of the giant panda, including husbandry management, reproduction, disease prevention, hand-rearing, behavior, ecology, physiology, hormone and genetics.

　　Through over twenty years’ hard work, the Research Center has made a lot of progress and comprehensively overcome the “three difficulties’ which restraints the development of the captive giant pandas in a long term (difficulty with fertility; difficulty in mating; difficulty in survival), achieving the goal of the captive giant pandas’ sustainable increase. By the end of 2007, the Research Center has had 128 giant pandas in total, the biggest captive giant panda population in the world, accounting for 60%. In 2003, the Research Center pioneered to start the project of reintroducing the captive giant pandas to the wild, which is an important milestone in the process of giant panda protection.

　　Today the Research Centre is the biggest breeding and research center for giant pandas in the world. It is also the leading base for loaning giant pandas to other sites throughout the world for exhibition and research and an important platform for scientific research and exchange at home and abroad. It makes important contributions to the giant panda research and protection.