Pandas: discurso indireto (B2)
Giant panda conservation is the most expensive rescue operation ever mounted for a single species, and it divides biologists. Supporters note that protecting panda habitat also protects an entire mountain ecosystem containing thousands of less charismatic species, and that the animal raises money nothing else could raise. Critics reply that the same funds would save far more biodiversity if spread across less photogenic reserves. Whatever the argument, the numbers have improved: wild populations grew enough for the species to be reclassified from endangered to vulnerable in 2016. At a press conference that year, the director of one breeding centre announced that the programme ___ twelve captive-born animals the following season, a figure that would have been unthinkable when the first centres opened in the 1980s with almost no successful births.
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- A) will release
- B) would release
- C) would have released
- D) had released
- E) will have released