China has removed giant pandas from its list of endangered species after the number living in the wild increased. There are now 1,800 pandas living in the wild, according to Beijing, meaning the species is classified as 'vulnerable' instead of 'endangered'. In the last decade alone, the number of pandas living wild in China has increased by almost 20 per cent. China's move comes five years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which runs the global 'red list' of threatened species, also removed giant pandas from its endangered list. Beijing disagreed with the move at the time, saying it believed the threat to wild pandas was still substantial enough to warrant the endangered classification.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2021 07:13 UTC