By this time, much of the rest of humanity may well have given up on pandas as worthless pieces of fur not worth saving, but China sure hasn’t. They are now planning an entire national park just for the adorably helpless critters.
The plan was just completed and submitted to Beijing earlier this week, so the exact location of the park is not yet known. Xinhua reports that officials from the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi worked together on the proposal and said that the giant national park will cover areas in all three provinces.
Thanks to the millions and millions of dollars spent researching pandas, watching them have sex and masturbate, the animal has managed to avoid extinction and has been staging something of a comeback. A 2014 survey estimated that the number of pandas in the wild has grown by 16.5% in the last decade to at least 1,864, mostly in Sichuan province.
