What can we do about it?

What can we do about it?

Right now several organizations are working on this problem and it seems like help is actually being given to pandas. WWF says they help by putting up cameras. To encourage local residents into buying wood saving stoves (to save the natural habitat of the panda) and set up people to patrol the reserve borders, and stop illegal hunting of the Giant panda.

What you can do is to adopt a panda. This you can do on several pages, like e.g. WWF, on which you can donate different amounts of money to support them in their research and protecting on/of the pandas. You can choose the amount you are willing to donate, and have them transferred in a matter of seconds. You can also tell them what you prefer the money to go to.

You have three options the way I interpreted it:

·       Nature reserve preservations

(To protect the nature reserve against the locals and wood chopping)

·       Community development

(To help the locals to understand that the pandas need to be protected, and to encourage them into stop chopping too much of their habitat)

·       Research and monitoring work

(To put of cameras to monitor movement of pandas)

Finally I would just encourage you to check out webpages to find out who you want to support.

Why save it?

Why save it?

This is a species that, if we don’t do anything about it, will be wiped of this planet.

It is also one of the most famous animals in the world, and also one of the most popular! It is a symbol of nature conservation.

By utilizing people to help the panda, we also help other animals, which have to be there to help the panda survive.

Extinction of animals is very natural in the history of the earth, but what’s not so natural is that they die out so rapidly.

This is dangerous, as the ecosystem is going out of balance with the dying animals.

And it is not just the Panda. The panda is one of the rare animals in the Yangtze Basin area, like the Golden ape and the dwarf blue sheep.

Why near Extinction?

Why near extinction? 

The panda’s natural habitat has been slowly diminishing because of humans slowly moving closer and closer. Their food supply has been slowly depleted, also because of humans. 

The giant panda lives in bamboo forests up in the mountains of western china.

People living near them need wood. Therefore they chop down the Giant pandas habitat, and move the borders of the panda. A long time ago, the panda was widespread in both southern and eastern china as well as western. Due to their shrinking habitat, pandas are now spread into 20 isolated spots in western China. The highest density of pandas is found in the Minshan Mountains with it's 45% of the wild population and approximately 720 pandas.

How do they count them? Well, to count them, they actually go through their excrement. They find bite-marks in undigested bamboo, which they use to identify pandas, just like fingerprints.

By doing this they keep track of all the individual pandas, and know that they haven’t counted the same panda several times.

The last count-up of pandas was in 2004, and this is due to the fact that the giant pandas habitat is secure, and growing.

Description: What is a panda?

Eating Habits
Panda's; they are cute, with their huge fat bodies, and beautiful contrasted colors, and huge 150 kilogramme big bears which enables it to pretty much rip off your head. But the panda chooses not to. Actually, the Panda is a vegetarian.
The panda eats bamboo only. More specifically, the panda eats in average 19 kg bamboo every day, and spends 11-14 hours to either look for food or eat. A panda also eats dead animals, but mostly just eat bamboo if it's available.

Appearance 
The adult giant panda is about 150 cm long from head to bottom. They weigh from 100-150 kg, and the male panda is 10% bigger and 20% heavier than the female. Most pandas are actually black and white, though there are som pandas with a more yellow-toned white color.

Family
Pandas are in  general not territorial, but females will not accept kids and other females in the core of their home range.
Pandas have shown to be poor breeders in captivity, but pandas involved in long-term studies, in their natural habit show to have a productivity rate comparable to the black bear, and is thriving. When pandas mate, males and females associate in no more than 2-4 four days.