Pandas mating again after mountain road cools passions

Communities of wild giant pandas on Mount Qinling in Shaanxi province have begun mating with each other again after being cut off by a State road built over the mountain in the 1970s.

Long-term monitoring has shown that different populations of the rare animal have been visiting each other via an ecological corridor built in 2005 by Shaanxi Guanyinshan National Nature Reserve and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Liu Xiaohai, executive director of the WWF China project, said the WWF has been focusing on improving connections between panda habitats, so it started to develop the ecological corridor for pandas in cooperation with the reserve in 2005.