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	Are efforts to save panda a giant waste of money?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63dffd60-f682-44f6-8724-ff597f87db41/A7927AD5-19DE-4A6A-8373-A907F8C6AEC7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money" style="font-size: 11px;">discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/discovermagazine.com/img/B1237F9D-6755-4044-B9AF-B19A43D7D91E" alt="pandas" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money"><P>About 22 percent of all mammals are <A href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/info/stats">listed as endangered</A> by the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
but the percentage is significantly higher for creepy, crawly, backbone-less
invertebrates, which enrich the soil, filter water, recycle
nutrients, pollinate plants, decompose animal carcasses and waste products,
play a vital role in the food chain, and <A href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/139455">inspire biomimetic creations</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money">What are pandas good for?</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/05-could-pandas-be-an-evolutionary-mistake2014or-proof-of-an-intelligent-designer/" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/05-could-pandas-be-an-evolutionary-mistake2014or-proof-of-an-intelligent-designer/" style="font-size: 11px;">discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/05-could-pandas-be-an-evolutionary-mistake2014or-proof-of-an-intelligent-designer/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/discovermagazine.com/img/F0307B9E-810E-458D-AB54-19FB9F3837F4" alt="panda.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/05-could-pandas-be-an-evolutionary-mistake2014or-proof-of-an-intelligent-designer/">Pandas <A href="http://www.slate.com/id/2165069/">have been ridiculed</A> for their <A href="http://www.cracked.com/article_16054_6-endangered-species-that-arent-endangered-enough.html">decidedly
non-bearlike</A> vegetarian diets, their <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/tech/main2614896.shtml">apparent
lack of interest in</A>—and aptitude for—sex, their tendency to spend the
majority of their time <A href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/247391/fat_panda_scratches_and_eats/">sitting,
eating, scratching</A> (video), and defecating (about 40 times per day)—even
for being, shall we say, <A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16672806/">plump</A>.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money" style="font-size: 11px;">discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money">The
panda <A href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22730796-30417,00.html">has
been called</A> "possibly
one of the grossest wastes of conservation money in the last half century"
by conservationist Chris Packham</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money">But a closer look reveals
a different picture: The charismatic megafauna may get all the glory, but they
also bring in the bucks</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7927AD5-19DE-4A6A-8373-A907F8C6AEC7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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