Save Pandas

With theSwitzerland-based World Wildlife Fund(WWF),China is making a concerted anddedicated effort to save the endangered pandas.The results,officials here in

Chengdu indicate,are mixed but encouraging.

A cleardisappointment is the failure to breed pandas in captivity,necessary if theirdecreasing numbers are to be replaced.Another failure has been the incapabilityto find a

natural,readilyavailable food to replace the arrow bamboo. Despite these failures,success hascome on two fronts.One achievement has been the physical rescue effort.Some

pandas have beenkept alive by salting（空投）themountains with tons of cooked meat , which pandas will eat as a substitute forbamboo,and by the planting of new

bamboo in isolatedareas.Animals in some Sichuanareas have been rescued by local peasants and given emergency treatment byanimal doctors.

A second achievementis a massive fund-raising effort.Publicity about the pandas plight has resultedin a new$100,000 emergency allocation by the WWF and independent

fund drives both in Chinaand abroad.

In spite of thissupport,there have been conflicts in the panda relief program.One importantproblem is the difficulty Peking is havingbalancing the recommendations of

environmentalistswith China'sambitious goal of agricultural and industrial modernization.

Wolong is but oneexample of this difficulty.This 494,000-acre preserve was declared a protectedarea in 1975.Yet 1,800 people,mostly Tibetans,still live in the

preserve,loggingtrucks still roll down the narrow mountain roads,and blasting work still goeson at the site of a new 160,000-kilowatt hydroelectric plant just six milesaway.

This all means thatthe pandas'fight for survival will not be an easy one,even with the concertedeffort of man.For in the end,even if they can survive the dangers of the

wild,they must stillcontend with man himseff.The tone of theauthor's conclusion concerning pandas'survival is______.

A.worried

B.optimistic

C.angry

D.impersonal