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A giant panda munches on bamboo in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province in a file photo.<\/div>
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Illegal logging in panda sanctuaries in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan is destroying the world’s largest habitat for the iconic creatures, an environmental group said in a report published this week.<\/div>
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The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is becoming fragmented by the loss of forest, putting pandas and other wildlife in danger, Greenpeace said in a report released online.<\/div>
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The reserve is home to around one-third of the existing world population of giant pandas, a creature that has come to symbolize China’s wildlife and its soft power around the world.<\/div>
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After a two-year investigation into deforestation in the sanctuaries, Greenpeace found that some 3,200 acres of natural forest has been lost to forestry companies looking to grow profitable timber.<\/div>
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While Chinese law expressly forbids the clear cutting of any natural forest in Sichuan, the exploitation is being packaged by local authorities as “forest reconstruction,” Greenpeace said in a statement issued along with the report.<\/div>
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“Loopholes in the regulations allow natural forest with enormous conservation value to be classified as ‘low-functioning’ forest,” the group said.<\/div>
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“This means that pristine forests that are home to so much precious wildlife are being razed to the ground, with impunity.”<\/div>
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The government has tried to crack down on the problem with a further ban on clear cutting of natural forests in 2012, but the move had little effect on the ground, it said.<\/div>
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According to the report, the destruction of its natural habitat is one of the biggest threats to the giant panda’s survival as a species, which need a mature forest habitat rich in food resources to survive across a large area in order to migrate and reproduce.<\/div>
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“Deforestation is happening in the heart of the Huangshuihe panda migratory corridor,” Greenpeace said. “Migratory corridors like this are essential for ensuring healthy breeding patterns for panda bears.”<\/div>
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It said similar patterns had been observed under the banner of “forest reconstruction” across China, with investigations revealing similar processes in southwestern Yunnan and eastern Zhejiang province.<\/div>
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“If this loophole isn’t closed, a third of China’s natural forests will remain exposed even after the nationwide expansion of the Natural Forest Protection Program in 2017,” the group warned.<\/div>
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“China places much pride in the panda, but far from enough is being done to protect their habitat,” the group’s Forests Campaigner Wu Hao said in a blog post.<\/div>
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Falling victim to vested interests<\/div>
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U.S.-based author Zheng Yi, who has campaigned on behalf of environmental issues in the past, said the pandas are falling victim to a complex web of vested interests.<\/div>
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“This is a case of collusion between government and business and vested interests that result in the relevant departments turning a blind eye to actions that actually damage the local ecology and environment,” Zheng told RFA in a recent interview.<\/div>
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