Mongolia launches "Year of Protecting the Gobi Bear" -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New: "ULAN BATOR, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia officially launched its "Year of Protecting the Gobi Bear" Wednesday with a conference to discuss ways to protect the endangered "national treasure", as only 22 of them remains in the country.
At the event organized by the Ministry of Environment and Green Development, specialists and scholars said they hope relevant government agencies could take actions to protect the bears.
Only 22 gobi bears remain in Mongolia, 14 males and eight females, according to government officials and experts. The country set up a gobi bear breeding center in 2010."
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