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The first specialized veterinary center in the treatment of the gigantic pandas of the Wolong reserve of should be finished end 2010, indicated Friday the chief of the national natural reserve of Wolong, Zhang Hemin.

This center will open in the village of Shiqiao of the city of Qingchengshan that depends on the one of Dujiangyan. He had to be originally located in the perimeter of the natural reserve of Wolong and his construction had begun there in 2007, but the terrifying earthquake of stern damages caused last year to the reserve.

It was necessary to all to restart and the new center will be finished in 2010. In spite of his remoteness of the reserve, the veterinary center will carry the same name that the reserve.

"This center is important for the observation, research and the treatment of the illnesses of the gigantic pandas," Zhang Hemin underline. He will consist of a laboratory, a veterinary hospital and forty enclosures.

Of the Wolong reserve is only situated to 30 km of the epicenter of the earthquake of May 12, 2008. During this one, four members of the staff of the panda reserve and has found the death, fourteen of the thirty-two enclosures have been destroyed and the last panda to be dispersed in other centers of raising.

The gigantic pandas are among the animal species the more threatened in the world. China about 1590 some shelters in liberty. Most are in the provinces of the Sichuan (southwest), of the Shaanxi (northwest) and of the Gansu (northwest).