There has been lots of bad news regarding natural disasters including the recent earthquake in China (check out Jon’s Takepart blog ). However here is some good news from China: 60 giant pandas, one of the world’s most endangered species, survived the quake.

Found only in China, the giant panda is the subject of one of the world’s most extensive and cooperative rehabilitation efforts. Zoos all over the world are in the business of trying to breed pandas in captivity, for re-release in the wild. With only 1,600 living in the wild, the survival of these 60 bears amounts to saving 4% of the population, a significant amount. [The Daily Green]

 To help keep pandas from going extinct and visit http://www.pandasinternational.org/ for ways to get involved.

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