Giant Panda
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Giant pandas live in remote, mountainous forests in central China where it is cool and wet with abundant bamboo. Historically, their habitat stretched further north and south but due to poaching for fur trade, they are now only found in small, isolated sections of forest in southern and eastern China. While poaching is no longer considered a major threat due to stricter laws and penalties, habitat loss from human development dividing forests into small islands continues to endanger the approximately 1,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild.
Giant Panda
- 1. GAINT PANDAS About 100 hundred Giant Pandas live in zoos, & there's only about 1,000 left in the wild.
- 2. Giant Pandas spend 55% of their day munching on bamboo. In the winter they take temporary shelter in hollow trees, rock crevices and caves, but they do not hibernate. THE GIANT PANDA SPEACIES Humans hunting Giant Pandas caused the species to shrink, pandas used to live as far as Vietnam and stretching north nearly to Beijing, but due to poaching they are now only found throughout most of southern and eastern China.
- 3. HABITAT & LOCATION Giant pandas live in remote mountains areas in central China, where it is cool and wet, with high bamboo forests.The most damaging result of development has been that it has divided the panda’s habitat into little islands of forest. Today, many pandas are isolated in these small sections of forest, because they will cross into areas where humans live.
- 4. THEARS TO GIANT PANDAS Poaching of pandas is no longer a problem although it used to be a serious issue in the past, but over the years it has been diminished, and now it is no longer considered a major threat, markets selling pandas skins have disappeared, now consequences for killing Giant Pandas have become more server, a in some cases death is the penalty.
- 5. Bibliograp hy Threats to Giant Panda, WWF, 4/5/13 http://worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda Lü, Z, Wang, D. & Garshelis, D.L. (IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group) 2008. Ailuropoda melanoleuca. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Specie http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/712/0