Pandas

Endangered Species

There used to be over 100,000 pandas in China, but now, because humans have destroyed their habitat to build farms, it made them move higher and higher up on the mountain. This made them lose lots of their food source causing them to starve to death. Today, there are less than 2,000 pandas in the world. Without our help, they'll end up going extinct because of our greed and because we destroyed their food source. In 1980 to 1990, there was less than 1,000 of them in the bamboo forests of China, but, thanks to panda reserves, the number went up almost a thousand in 20 to 30 years. Also, they have to eat 20 to 40 pounds a day to just LIVE. You can probably imagine how much that would endanger them in that tiny pocket of space where they live. They also only live in 6 mountain ranges in China, and at the very tops of them (There's a map at the top of the next page that will show you how big their habitat used to be and how big it is now). So they barely have enough food to survive now. Some famous panda reserves are the Wolong Panda Reserve, the Bifengxia Panda Base, the Anzihe Giant Panda Nature Reserve,the Mt. Siguniang Nature Reserve, the Laba River Reserve, and the Heishuihe Giant Nature Reserve. This animal's numbers are increasing slowly though, even if ever so slightly from 1980 to 2019. Help it grow faster by donating to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). (Also, the map will pretty much be the whole next chapter).