Plans that have been started to reconstruct the destruction caused by the massive earthquake on May 12th 2008, but some experts are warning that hasty rebuilding could accelerate the fragmentation of the fragile pandas habitat.

"The earthquake and the human response to the earthquake are actually posing new threats to the long-term viability of the wild pandas," said Marc Brody, founder of the conservation group Panda Mountain—U.S.-China Environmental Fund. Brody has been working in the region for nearly a decade and is helping the Chinese government with blueprints for reconstruction.

When the pandas habitat is fragmented the pandas can not easily travel from one area to another to find new food sources and to find mates. Interbreeding in the same over can seriously damage the gene pool and could cause the extension of our beloved bear.

The fragmentation is caused with the ever growing population of human in the area and the build of new homes and roads to accommodate them.