New 'eyes'on pandas
Updated: 2016-10-26 08:00
By Xu Lin(China Daily)
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Infrared cameras capture images of a wild giant panda in nature reserves in China. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
Since 2008, reserve rangers have worked with the WWF and set up about 40 infrared cameras in the woods to take photos automatically when a living creature passes by.
In 2010, one of the infrared cameras captured the first image of a wild panda in Liangshan prefecture. The last time that the nature reserve snapped an image of the black-and-white animal was last May, when it was marking its territory.
"Our aim is to protect wild giant pandas in a scientific way. Such new technology and ideas are important," WWF's Xu says.
"It's more objective to measure work achievement via surveillance cameras. It's good for data saving, too-otherwise, you will have to input into a computer the data that are originally recorded on piles of paper," Xu says.
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