China creates app to recognize Pandas

China has developed an app that allows conservationists to identify individual pandas using facial recognition techlogy, state-run Xinhua news ncy reported on Friday, May 17.

Researchers have also built a database with over 120,000 ims and 10,000 video clips of giant pandas that would allow m to correctly identify individual animals.

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" app and database will help us gar more precise and well-rounded data on population, distribution, s, ratio, birth and deaths of wild pandas, who live in deep mountains and are hard to track," Chen Peng, a researcher at  China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas, told Xinhua.

China last year also anunced plans to create a bastion for giant pandas three times size of Yellowstone National Park to link up and encour breeding among existing wild populations of toriously slow-reproducing animal, state media reported.

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At least 10 billion yuan (USD 1.6 billion) h been budgeted for  Giant Panda National Park in mountaius southwestern China for nation's favourite creature, China Daily reported.

Giant pandas have a toriously low reproductive rate, a key factor -- along with habitat loss -- in ir status as "vulnerable" on International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of threatened species.

More than 80 per cent of world's wild pandas live in Sichuan, with rest in Shaanxi and Gansu.

re were about 548 giant pandas in captivity globally as of vember, Xinhua said.

number living in wild has dwindled to fewer than 2000.