BEIJING - China has developed an app that allows conservationists to identify individual pandas using facial recognition technology, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday .
"The app and database will help us gather more precise and well-rounded data on the population, distribution, ages, gender ratio, birth and deaths of wild pandas, who live in deep mountains and are hard to track," Chen Peng, a researcher at the China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Pandas, told Xinhua.
At least 10 billion yuan had been budgeted for the Giant Panda National Park in mountainous south-western China for the nation's favourite creature, China Daily reported.
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