GAINT PANDAS

About 100 hundred Giant Pandas live in zoos, & there's only about 1,000 left in the wild.

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.

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. 

THEARS TO GIANT PANDASPoaching 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.

Bibliography

Threats to Giant Panda, WWF, 4/5/13http://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