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Earth

'Eating wildlife is a part of Chinese culture'

By Phil Mckenna

15 July 2009

Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Lü Zhi has studied pandas for two decades and is director of conservation biology at Peking University

(Image: Lü Zhi/Shan Shui Conservation Centre)

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Lü Zhi is the director of the at Peking University, Beijing, China.

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