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    It’s normally sad to hear something is “downgraded (降级)”. But when the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, 国际自然保护联盟) downgraded the giant panda on its Red List in 2016, the whole world was h1..

The Red List r2. the world’s species(物种) and points out which ones are at the risk of extinction (灭绝). Since the 1990s, the giant panda has been “endangered”. Now its level has been lowered to “vulnerable (脆弱的)”. Researchers believe there are now nearly 2,000 giant pandas l3. in the wild of China. The number was 1,600 in 2003 and 1,200 in the 1980s.

The i4. in the panda population is mainly because of China’s efforts to save the cute fuzzy animal. Since 1958, China has s5. up 67 nature reserves for pandas. There they are kept safe and enjoy enough fresh b6..

China has also welcomed international o7. that wish to study pandas. The first such visit was in 1979 by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Its world-famous logo(图标) uses the picture of panda, which has brought the animal to the a8. of the whole world.

China also sends pandas to other countries as special “ambassadors (大使)”. The money that foreign zoos p9. helps with China’s efforts to save pandas.

“The recovery of the panda shows that when science, politics and... local communities come together, we can s10. wildlife,” WWF Director General Marco Lambertini told CNN.