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The giant panda's population started to decline rapidly in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, and the population boom in China after 1949 created stress on the pandas' habitat and the subsequent famines led to the increased hunting of wildlife, including pandas. Studies and conservation activities on the pandas were stopped during the Cultural Revolution. In spite of the attempts to save the declining panda population through the Wolong National Nature Reserve being set up in 1958, it was simply too late, and the giant panda's end was inevitable.
How can this be changed? How can the giant panda be saved from extinction, and how much different would it be if the giant panda was still alive?
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