more bamboo one way to help save pandas.

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    On May 23, six pandas left an important panda base in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan Province, b of fewer and fewer bamboo trees.

    The pandas were tby trucks from China Giant Panda Protection and Research Cto Ya'an, another base less affected by the earthquake, said Xiong Beirong, an official of Sichuan Provincial Forestry Bureau(林业局).

    Eight other pandas lfor the Chengdu Research Base on May 18. They will be carried by China Southern Airlines(CSA)to Beijing, where they will sat the Beijing Zoo, said Wolong director Zhang Hemin.

    Liu Shaoyong, a leader of CSA, said the pandas were scheduled(预定)to leave Chengdu at 3 p.m. on Saturday. They will travel on a Boeing 747-700 plane wbamboo and water.

    "There is e water now, bfood is still a big problem. The pandas need bamboos and apples. "Xiong Beirong said.

    After the earthquake, tons of bamboo shoots, apples, eggs, milk powder and medicines were brought tthe center, but the supplies could only last about a week, she said.

    There are about 1, 590 pandas lin the wild in China, mostly in Sichuan and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.

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