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for donating items for our silent auction and wine garden at our
12th Annual Chinese New Year's Fundraising Dinner on February 25th.
A good time was had by all!
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| A-1 Scuba and Travel Center Andy Marquez Angela Seep Angie Binder Anne Belov Ava Yetter Bill and Vickie Shroeder Brad Brieman Breakfast on Broadway Byron West Cherie Leighton Goodwin Christie Harper Classical True Acupuncture Colleen Zimmerman Contemporary Expressions Photography Cynthia Leftwich DAL Jewelry Denver Nuggets/Kroenke Sports Charities Evelyn Waldman Fulcrum Publishing Husar’s Fine Gifts Image West Imperial Intermountain REA Isle Casino Black Hawk Jerry Braden John Genser Karen Rose Karl Mecklenburg Kim Fong Sheremeta |
Linda McCoy Lisa Fraser Lynn Brown Mary Lauex Matt Beck Mayor Steve Hogan Otterbox Pandas International Peter Minahan PinkFOG Rapanui Ron and Susan Telesko Rose Richards Sandra Miller Show of Hands Sonja Brown SpiritHoods Steve and Stephanie Moss Studio C Framing Susan Tunstall Team Husar Wildlife Photography Terry Cavanagh The Christie Lodge The Palace Chinese Restaurant Tom Soucek United Vacations Virginia Bonvicini Whole Health Center Wildlife Experience Wisteria Zebra Vodka |
Bonacquisti Wine Company Brad Brieman Frank Sheremeta JJ Loughran Karen Rose Luke Muller Pandas International Sarah Stowe Sonja and Chris Brown Steve and Stephanie Moss Suzanne and Jerry Braden Tony Poole Virginia Bonvicini Water 2 Wine Please support all of the businesses who helped donate to the event. |
Special Thanks |
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To our major sponsors: To all our Table Sponsors A special thank you to everyone To the businesses and individuals To the volunteers who made the event run smoothly. And to the Board of Directors (Note: Two bottles of wine from the wine garden, #38 & #52, |
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 Wolong Construction Site |
Wolong Panda Center was severely damaged in the massive Earthquake of 2008. A new location was determined to be geologically safer since it is not right at the base of the mountains. The new Center will be within the Wolong Nature Reserve near the Town of Gengda in the Wolong Special Administration Region, Sheng Shuping area for captive breeding.
 Aerial View of the CDC Center |
While the Wolong Panda Center is under construction, a new Center for Disease Control is also being built at Juandongguo of Shiqiao Village, Qingchen Mountain Town outside of Dujiangyan city. This CDC center will serve both the Wolong and the Bifengxia Panda Centers as well as all the wild pandas in Sichuan Province.
 Cao Cao with Cub Tao Tao |
Reintroduction is underway both at the old Wolong Panda Center in sections not damaged by the earthquake and at the Bifengxia Center. When the new Wolong Panda Center is completed, the reintroduction area will be at Huangcaoping.
After the unfortunate death of Xiang Xiang, the entire reintroduction program was reevaluated and scientists determined it would be better for the animal being released never to have had direct contact with humans. There are currently five mothers and cubs in the reintroduction program. The mothers are placed in a semi- wild enclosure and give birth with no human intervention in manmade dens. The cubs are cared for by the mother while being monitored by caretakers. Behavioral research has already shown there is increased communication in the semi- wild enclosures between the mother and the cub. Since the cub can get out of the mother’s sight, she is constantly calling to the cub and making sure he/she is in sight and safe.
Vets and caretakers dress in panda suits when they do health checks and move the cubs. The hope is the cubs will have a natural fear of humans if they are released. The first cub born under this program was Tao Tao born to Cao Cao. (See slide show for photos)
Large areas of bamboo were severely damaged in the massive Earthquake of 2008. Additional damage from torrential rains resulting in flooding and rock and mud slides continued in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Unusually heavy snow in 2011 also caused additional damage to the bamboo.
Bamboo is the main food source of the Giant Panda. Although they will eat meat, flowers and fish, they are not good hunters and rely primarily on bamboo.
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