Click to play videoNew Delhi: Even as authorities in China's Sichuan province are trying to deal with the human toll of the earthquake, there is a question mark over the area's best-known non-humans - the pandas.
The world's foremost panda habitat, the Wolong National Reserve is only about three hours from Chengdu, the epicenter of Monday's quake.
The reserve, which works with zoos worldwide, houses about 150 pandas. A spokesperson from the San Diego Zoo, which has a researcher there, said the Wolong Reserve was not seriously affected. However, Chinese officials said they had no information on Wolong.
At the San Diego Zoo, which has a researcher in Beijing, spokeswoman Christina Simmons said: "We have heard through our contacts in China that the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center was not seriously affected."
The zoo's researcher in Beijing is also well, Simmons said in an e-mail.
Officials at the Chinese national tourism office in Glendale, California, said Monday morning that they had no information on Wolong.
Calls to the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles were not immediately returned.
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