A 12-year-old giant Panda displaced by the massive earthquake thatrocked China's Sichuan province in May has giveN birth to twins.
Chinesestate media report Guo Guo is the first panda to give birth since thequake, and the first panda to give birth this year.
Officials say they were able to examine one of the cubs, and that it weighs just 170 grams.
GuoGuo gave birth at a panda facility in Ya'an City, not far from theWolong nature reserve where she lived until the earthquake.
This is the third consecutive year that Guo Guo has given birth.
Chineseofficials evacuated pandas from the Wolong reserve to safer areasaround the country last month because of the danger of landslides andscarcity of food.
Officials say the Wolongreserve, which has about 150 pandas living in the wild, was severelydamaged by the powerful earthquake that hit Sichuan province May 12. At least one panda in captivity died in the quake, as did fiveemployees of the panda center.
Forestry officials estimate theearthquake destroyed or damaged more than 80 percent of the giantpanda's remaining habitat, including the bamboo on which it relies forfood.
A senior forestry official told a Hong Kong newspaper the that about two-thirds of the wildpopulation is likely dead, injured or facing starvation.
Expertssay most of China's endangered wild pandas, a total of only about1,500, live in Sichuan and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxiand Gansu.