A thirty-six-million dollar plan to save the giant panda from extinction has been disclosed in China.

Only about a thousand are left.

Under the project, green corridors will be established between isolated areas where pandas have survived, by turning farmlands and roads into forests of bamboo.

An official report says human encroachment has seriously destroyed the animal's habitats, isolating groups of pandas and preventing the exchange of genes.

It is hoped the plan will help the pandas socialize with each other and prevent inbreeding.