WOLONG, China - Six rare giant pandas were evacuated Friday from the famed Wolong breeding center in southwest China due to food shortages and damage caused by last week's earthquake, staff said.
The endangered animals were trucked to another nature reserve in quake-hit Sichuan province, following eight others that were removed on Thursday in a departure planned before the earthquake, staff members told an AFP journalist.
"They left today. They are already gone," said one of several staffers at the now largely-deserted site to look after the roughly 46 pandas left there.
Three other pandas remained missing following the quake, staff said.
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