Pandas evacuated from earthquake-hit area in China because of landslide threats

Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, an official said Tuesday.

Only seven pandas of the original 63 are left in the Wolong Nature Reserve deep in the lush mountains of Sichuan province, close to the epicenter of last month's magnitude-7.9 temblor, said Zhang Hemin, the director of the Wolong Panda Breeding Center.

They are being fed only a fraction of their daily allowance of bamboo because the plants were either damaged or destroyed by the quake, he said. Their diet is being supplemented by milk and …