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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Cute Tax

Pandas bamboozled by march of progress

HE YONGGUO is overworked and underpaid. The man in charge of China's most successful panda-breeding program gets paid less than $A130 a month for working seven 10-hour days a week.
But the rewards are immense. In his six years at the Wolong Nature Reserve, the world's largest panda reserve, he has delivered 48 baby pandas, including a record 16 last year, all of whom have survived.

($130.00 Australian = $92.3912 USD for a regular 70 hour work week!) The article points out how in efforts to modernize as fast as possible, the provincial governments of China often prioritize lucrative mining or tourism projects over wildlife protection, making the conservationist's job that much more difficult.

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