Alicia – Is captive breeding really the best way to save pandas?

I was really appalled after reading this article. I had always thought that keeping pandas in the zoo was a way to save the alarming decrease of pandas. However, my mind-set changed after reading this article.   
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220591/The-cruel-truth-Chinas-panda-factories.html

Summary and my thoughts of the articles:
Tao Tao was released to the wild after being captivated for two years at a zoo. The keepers who had taken care of him spared no detail in the preparation of the panda’s future. They made a model leopard with roaring sound to teach him about the potential predators. Today, Tao Tao is the only captive-bred giant panda in the wild.
If his release is a success, more young pandas will follow his footsteps and be released into the wild.However, Tao Tao isn't the first panda to be released. Xiang Xiang was released into the wild in 2009. He was found dead 10 months later, chased to his death by wild pandas. It is believed that he was caught in a fight with other wild pandas and took refuge in a tree and fell to his death. Dr Sarah Bexell said that captive-bred pandas are unlikely to be able to survive in the wild. Wild pandas are alert all the time to sense what’s going on around them and sense for any dangers. Captivity, on the other hand, dulls that sense. Their life is pre-programmed and they are bored and have no need to think.
Other than the development of the industries, the panda’s habitat is at increasing risk as Chinese tourist head to western China to revel in the mountain scenery and look for wild pandas. The tourists eat wild mushrooms and bamboos shoots. On top of that, they eat wild animals and red pandas is the new big delicacy. The artificial noise and sounds makes it unsettle for the wild animals and they got no choice, but to be forced further back into the shrinking habitat.  
One of the biggest flaws of captivity breeding is that the baby pandas are forced to be separated from their mother after six months even though in the wild, the mothers are supposed to be with their babies for two years to teach them social and survival skills. And the reason for separated the mother after six months is that the mother is needed to produce more offspring.  And what’s shocking to me is that the pandas were not left to breed naturally but an awful and painful process takes place, repeatedly DAILY during the annual ten day window of fertility. Sperm is ‘drawn’ from the males by inserting an electrified rubber truncheon into their anus. Collected and frozen in special panda sperm banks, straws of sperm are then carefully inserted into unconscious females, who are strapped to wooden boards. Scientists have stopped looking for more alternatives to save pandas as captivity breeding seem to be so successful and easy.
Even though it seems that releasing the panda to the wild may be a good idea, it is not at all. No efforts are being done to preserve or restore the habitats of the pandas for the continuity of the existence of the pandas. Releasing the pandas will only lead them to death. Captivity may be one of the options to save pandas, however it’s not enough compared to the rapid decrease of wild pandas.