{"id":586447,"date":"2026-09-01T02:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:08:50","slug":"human-wildlife-clashes-on-the-rise-in-chinas-giant-panda-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586447\/","title":{"rendered":"Human-wildlife clashes on the rise in China\u2019s Giant Panda National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Friction between humans and wild animals at China\u2019s Giant Panda National Park intensified significantly over the past decade as conservation efforts expanded, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Farmers reported increasing losses between 2015 and 2024, stemming from damage to property and crops as well as attacks on humans and livestock.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team behind the study said the issue had become the most prominent challenge facing the park\u2019s administrators.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Giant Panda National Park covers 22,000 sq km (8,500 sq miles), 2\u00bd times the size of Yellowstone in the United States, and officially opened in 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spanning the provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, the park is now home to more than 1,300 wild giant pandas, 70 per cent of their total population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friction between humans and wild animals at China\u2019s Giant Panda National Park intensified significantly over the past decade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[288813,607,1389,112955,288812,288811,111,139,69,147,91714,37558,406,24133],"class_list":["post-586447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beijing-forestry-university","tag-china","tag-conservation","tag-gansu","tag-giant-panda-national-park","tag-human-wildlife-conflicts","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-shaanxi","tag-sichuan","tag-wildlife","tag-yellowstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}