Stranded panda lured off cliff edge with a banana
Endangered: There are only around 1,600 pandas in the world
A panda stranded on a steep mountain face was lured to safety with a banana.
Villagers in southwestern China's Sichuan province called conservationists for help after discovering the terrified animal.
'The panda is a national treasure, so everyone's scared to hurt it,' a local forestry official was quoted as saying.
The giant panda, estimated to be between three and four years old, was eventually lured from behind a tree with more bananas and managed to scramble off the mountain.
Only about 1,600 pandas live in the wild, mostly in Sichuan.
Another 120 are in Chinese breeding facilities and zoos, and about 20 live in zoos outside China.
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