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Fang Ye said, "The plight facing giant pandas at the time was far more complex than simply not having bamboo to eat due to its flowering and nearly starving to death.
After investigators went on surveys, they discovered over twenty thousand animal traps in one area.
Even though pandas don't have much in the way of food or medicinal value, making poaching of giant pandas not too severe, the animal traps set for other animals would catch giant pandas just the same. A slightest misstep could result in their legs being snapped, and in more serious cases, death.
Moreover, back then, public awareness of ecological protection was generally very weak. Some county leaders even argued, 'When people are starving, why should we protect giant pandas?'
In some villagers' homes, over four hundred giant panda pelts were confiscated, along with some golden hair monkey skins."
"Damn!"
The tourists around gasped in shock.
