{"id":132294,"date":"2016-12-13T23:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/the-giant-panda-is-no-longer-endangered.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:10:00","slug":"the-giant-panda-is-no-longer-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/the-giant-panda-is-no-longer-endangered.html","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Panda is no longer endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that doesn&#39;t mean you can go out and hunt them now. Jeez, what is <i>wrong<\/i> with you people?<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;In a welcome piece of good news for the world&rsquo;s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from &lsquo;Endangered&rsquo; to &lsquo;Vulnerable&rsquo; on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach can help save our planet&rsquo;s vanishing biodiversity.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the positive change to the giant panda&rsquo;s official status in the Red List of Threatened Species, pointing to the 17% rise in the population in the decade up to 2014, when a nationwide census found 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You go, Giant Pandas!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/stories\/giant-panda-no-longer-endangered'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/6v4jO8-kqqIs_S3v5XayOnd9uwHnmC08XxnHEIePtS0yhiqRh_oZ77MNqPmseZ2CD79ItMcpdtiNI_Eoo9N6uUEoVoGvq75oVQbwVhksaNx6rBqfYlpg-raSBuTOfscysQEBbyTaEpzE0893UWfHIXkF7v1zaFng2Aa4QdbdDmq7pNc=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/stories\/giant-panda-no-longer-endangered'>Giant panda no longer Endangered | Stories | WWF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe giant panda has just been downgraded from &lsquo;Endangered&rsquo; to &lsquo;Vulnerable&rsquo; on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach to conservation can help save our planet&rsquo;s vanishing biodiversity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/63uAqDfBmYt'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that doesn&#39;t mean you can go out and hunt them now. Jeez, what is wrong with you people? &#39;In a welcome piece of good news for the world&rsquo;s threatened wildlife, the giant panda has just been downgraded from &lsquo;Endangered&rsquo; to &lsquo;Vulnerable&rsquo; on the global list of species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/the-giant-panda-is-no-longer-endangered.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Giant Panda is no longer endangered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/panda_attack.html","url_meta":{"origin":132294,"position":0},"title":"Panda attack!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Feb-06 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The economics of hosting giant pandas at US zoos -- it's really expensive, both because of the facility needs and because China charges a frightfully large \"rent\" to keep the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; Nature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":907,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/02\/now_let_me_get.html","url_meta":{"origin":132294,"position":1},"title":"Now let me get this straight &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Nov-01 8:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"China is the home of the rapidly dwindling population of giant pandas. 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