Chinese tourists who threw rocks at panda blacklisted from nature reserve
Witness says visitors were trying to make the animal move from under a tree
Four Chinese tourists who threw rocks at a giant panda trying to make it move last week have been blacklisted from a nature reserve in northwest China, according to local media.
Footage of the incident posted on social media on Monday shows a man lobbing stones from behind a fence at a panda resting under a tree in its enclosure at the reserve in Foping county, in Hanzhong, Shaanxi province.
One witness from Xian, surnamed Yang, said the panda had been motionless under the tree at the time, Chinese Business View reported on Monday.
Yang said more than 20 people had gathered at the enclosure on Friday afternoon and some began shouting at the panda, trying to get it to move, before the man seen in the video in a white T-shirt started throwing stones.
But Yan Xihai, marketing manager of the Foping National Nature Reserve, told the newspaper that the man in the footage was not the only visitor flinging rocks at the animal.