At West Midlands Safari Park, a red panda cub is being quietly raised by its mother, Mei Lin - the fourth cub the park has welcomed in four straight years [1].
It is a small thing against a big number: fewer than ten thousand red pandas remain in the wild, and the species is listed as endangered [1]. Each cub born into the European breeding programme that Mei Lin is part of is one more thread in the safety net beneath a species that needs it [1].
Born in late June and now being reared behind the scenes, the cub is, for a species running low, exactly the kind of ordinary good news worth noticing [1].
