Shangri-La’s Bamboo Plantation Adjoins Dujiangyan Giant Panda Rescue Centre

Nearly two years after Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts planted 15,840 bamboo seedlings on a 1.6-hectare plot of land the group sponsored in the Sichuan province of China, the lush bamboo plantation is now complete.

It adjoins the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Rescue and Disease Control Centre - a much-needed base for rescued, ill or elderly wild giant pandas and for the research of disease control - and ensures food security for the centre’s cherished residents made up of 29 giant pandas and four red pandas.

The plantation, located at the foot of Mount Qing Cheng and a one-and-a-half-hours’ drive from Chengdu, has been enhanced with 144 Cherry and Magnolia trees to create a natural habitat for the pandas and to aid in their recovery and survival.

Special programmes organised by the panda base will allow guests of Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu to join educational excursions to learn more about the plight of the giant pandas and to participate in learning activities such as food preparation for the pandas.

Building on the success of the plantation, and Shangri-La’s conservation efforts to protect endangered pandas through the 2012 launch of Shangri-La’s Care for Panda project, the panda base is constructing a bamboo garden with different species of bamboos to serve the purpose of further research and provide an informative area for students, guests and tourists to visit. Shangri-La’s Golden Circle members have the exclusive opportunity to contribute to the garden’s development by donating 2,000 Golden Circle Award Points to secure and plant approximately 4.4 bamboo seedlings.