Panda Politics by Hannah Beech

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 18
Date: March 4, 2016
Article: Panda Politics
Author:  Hannah Beech
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Answer Key
1. Wolong National Nature Reserve is China's national panda reserve.
2. Zhang Hemin came up with the idea for the panda costumes.
3. Zhang Hemin is the name of the director of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.
4. Pandas eat bamboo.
5. There are around 1,864 pandas in the wild.
6. Zhang Hemin said pandas were meat eaters in the past.
7. U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972.
8. China gave the U.S. two pandas after U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972.
9. The name of the baby panda is "Bei Bei."
10. China lends its pandas for 10 years at a time.
11. China charges $1 million per year per pair to lend its pandas to other countries.
12. True
13. China uses the money to pay for research and habitat protection.


Reference
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1213
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_21399.htm