China Disputes Ruling on Giant Pandas, Says They Remain Endangered

The Chinese government is objecting to an international conservation group's decision to remove giant pandas from its endangered-species list. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said this week that it had reclassified the giant panda in its Red List of Threatened Species. The animal is no longer "endangered," but is still "vulnerable," the organization said. The Swiss-based IUCN credited China's enforcement of anti-poaching regulations and...

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