To effectively monitor the number of panda and avoid panda?痵 kinship reproduction activities, China State Forestry Bureau decides to imbed penned panda with high-tech IDs, said official of Dept. of Wildlife Protection, a part of the State Forestry Bureau.

According to a briefing, three ID embedding alternatives are currently ready for final selection. Of them, a gene based ID embedding solution attracts most attention for its high-tech content. The solution will provide panda?痵 basic data and information, including age and kinship. This can be easily done simply by plucking out a hair from panda. Expecting to go full-fledged in the year, the effort will allow researchers to track down the information of panda that have been released into the natural environment. Statistics show that as of the end of last year, China has penned up 163 panda, in addition to 1,590 panda that are living in wild environment.