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Only 1,590 pandas still live in the wild, all of them in China. Of these, 1,400 were in the quake-hit region, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n

"The dense forests covering these places have now turned into bare land," Yan Xun, a State Forestry Administration official, was quoted as saying. "Landslides and forestry destruction pose severe threats to the lives of the surviving pandas."<\/p>\n

The earthquake also devastated Sichuan’s Wolong research centre, the world’s most important panda reserve, killing one panda with another still missing.<\/p>\n

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