Rebuild the ecology

The post-quake reconstruction involves not only the rebuilding of homes, schools and other infrastructure facilities, but also the restoration of the badly-damaged ecological environment.

The damage this quake has caused to local ecology is tremendous. Forest coverage in many mountainous areas has been considerably reduced because of landslides and mudslides, and some forest-covered mountains have been left only with rocks.

The mountains around the epicenter are exactly the habitat of the giant panda, an animal that is unique to China and considered a living fossil in terms of its long history of evolution.