This assignment will discuss the decline of Giant Pandas and it will suggest some solutions to this problem. Firstly it will analyse the problem and the extent will be explained followed by why and where this problem is occurring then it will suggest some ways to solve the problem. .
WHY:.
Giant Pandas are endangered. Their numbers are decreasing with around 1000 left in the wild. Giant Pandas are hunted for fur, their main food source is dwindling and farmers are invading their habitat leaving the pandas helpless. Poachers have been hunting pandas for years. There were 145 pandas killed in 1974, 72 killed in 1986 and in 1987 133 poachers were caught hunting the Giant panda. Laws are becoming stricter on poachers and if caught, they are put to a death sentence. There are only isolated patches of bamboo left. Once every fifteen to 120 years depending on the species bamboo flowers and after the bamboo flowers it dies. Every time it flowers the pandas find it hard to survive. China has a population of approximately 1,000 million people, as all these people need space they are taking over the Giant panda's habitat, leaving pandas to move more up their mountain. Some have been forced to live on narrow bands of mountain slopes. All these problems are reasons for why pandas are endangered and they need to be helped.
WHERE:.
Giant Pandas live in the mountainous regions of the Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in China. There is proof that Pandas were once in huge groups all over China and Burma but now they are only in small parts of China and their area is getting smaller. Pandas now just cover a total area of 6,500 square kilometres compared to the area they used to cover. It is tiny. Pandas are now scared of humans and hide in their remaining bamboo forest.
WHY:.
Panda's main threat in survival is humans. People are being greedy. They are moving their way up the mountain not caring that they could be destroying homes of animals that some day may be extinct.
The giant panda is a native animal of China. ... Now, it is estimated around 1600 panda living in wild. ... The female panda only give birth to only one panda cup per year. ... The giant panda is a beautiful animal. ... In addition, there are other centers as the Cheng du Panda breeding, the Bifengxia panda breeding centers. ...
There are many factors contributing to the extinction of Giant Pandas all over the world. ... Now that humans inhabit most valleys in China, some natural panda habitats are now wider than 1000 meters. ... This would cause the isolation of small numbers of pandas in any given region and thus inbreeding problems. Another large factor in panda extinction is illegal hunting and poaching. Pandas have a very slow reproductive cycle and the killing of one can severely damage the process. ...
Once upon a time, there was a panda named Ping Ping. ... As Ping Ping got older he began to get interested in female pandas. ... Some of his panda friends were killed by poachers for their pelts. ... To help Ping Ping and other giant pandas like him, the Chinese Ministry of Forestry and the World Wildlife Fund came up with a conservation plan for giant pandas. ... They are breeding pandas in captivity and studying more giant pandas in more detail. ...
Kung Fu Panda, as the name itself suggests is the story of a Panda who trains in Kung Fu, in order to be the savior of the town. ... A panda on the other hand, is often seen as a lazy, obese and silly creature. Po, a panda in a town of ducks and pigs, does not realize that he is not one of them but somewhere in his heart, he feels that his place is in the Jade palace along with the other Kung Fu warriors. ...
In one example a Panda escaped from a city zoo and local residents were told to report any sightings of it to authorities so that it could be returned to the zoo. That day there were dozens of sightings of Pandas in different areas of the city even though, as it turns out, the Panda was killed by a train about a hundred feet from the zoo. People were thinking about the Panda and so vague objects throughout the city appeared to be Pandas to them. ... Likewise when you believe in something it becomes very clear to you, whether you believe that that object at the far end of the street is a Pand...
The episode that will be discussed in this paper is one titled, "Sexual Harassment Panda." The show begins with a classroom of students patiently awaiting their guest speaker, who they later find out is a man in a panda costume. ... During the panda's discussion, Kyle calls Cartman an "ass sucker." ...
Possibly the best known is the Giant Panda, once found all over China, now confined to a few sites near the city of Chengtu in the Province of Szechwan in western China. The giant panda relies heavily on a diet of bamboo but China's bamboo forests have been converted to farmland. Despite conservation attempts by WWWF [World Wide Fund for Nature (panda emblem)] and breeding programmes in zoos [largely unsuccessful], genetic biodiversity so reduced that species will probably die out. ...
Some members of the Carnivora aren't even meat-eaters at all: some small carnivores such as the tropical American coatis and kinkajou eat mostly fruit, and the panda feeds almost exclusively on bamboo. ... A generally accepted classification of the Carnivora is as follows: Carnivora Arctoidea Pinnipedia Otariidae -- sea lions, eared seals, fur seals Odobenidae -- walrus Phocidae -- true (earless) seals, elephant seals Canidae -- dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes, dingos Ursidae -- bears, panda Procyonidae -- raccoons, kinkajous, ringtails, coatis Mustelidae -- weasels, ferrets, s...
