... there's less than 2000 Pandas and more than 1.3 billion people - from a purely statistical viewpoint the loss of one Panda in China is equivalent (as a percentage) to approximately 826,000 people.

So yes, do save the fluffy ones (and the not fluffy, I'd be of a similar viewpoint if it was say Manatee vs People). In the last 40 years or so there has been a 60% increase in the number of humans; we've out-competed almost every other species (rats, cockroaches and bacteria possibly exempt) leading to the biggest loss of species diversity since the K-T extinction event 65 million years ago.

Which "liberal democracy" did you have in mind here?

Multi-tasking: performing more than one task at the same time.

Apparently several commenters have never heard of it.

I'm sure the Chinese gov't is quite capable of shipping some much needed food for the Pandas AND maintaining their relief efforts.

Seems like the general consensus here is that the lives of Chinese people are worth less than pandas because there are more of them. And here I was, thinking human life was sacred, regardless of race, religion...or in this case, how populous the affected demographic were.

But then, that would require an ounce of humanity.