Red Panda, or Raccoon?

Gentle Giants

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October 10th 2006
We celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving Monday with a much anticipated visit to the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the big black and white bears, and that they are an endangered species with an estimated number of only 1000 left in the wild. The facility in Chengdu is beautiful. They have done a really great job in giving these captive animals a ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more