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On May 23, six pandas left an important panda base(基地)in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan Province, because of damaged(损坏的)shelters and food shortages after the May 12 earthquake, a local official said．
The pandas were taken by trucks from China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center to Ya'an, another base less affected by the earthquake, said Xiong Beirong, an official of Sichuan Provincial Forestry Bureau(林业局)．
Eight other pandas left for the Chengdu Research Base on May 18．They will be carried by China Southern Airlines
(CSA)to Beijing, where they will stay at the Beijing Zoo, said Wolong director Zhang Hemin．
Iiu Shaoyong, a leader of CSA, said the pandas were scheduled(预定)to leave Chengdu at 3 p．m．Saturday．They will travel on a Boeing 747 -700 plane with bamboo and water．
“There is enough water now, but food is still a big problem．The pandas need bamboos and apples．”Xiong Beirong said．
After the earthquake, tons of bamboo shoots, apples, eggs, milk powder and medicines were brought to the center, but the supplies could only last about a week, she said．
There are about 1,590 pandas living in the wild in China, mostly in Sichuan and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu．
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