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__Giant Panda by Lauren W.__

Giant pandas live everywhere from china, to Sichuan, to Gansu.The Giant Pandas live on great plains, mountains and even a bamboo forest. Their diet is made up of bamboo. The bamboo is very full on energy and is healthy for them. In order to have enough energy a panda must eat 12-38 kgs a day. A loss of a bamboo forest is a key threat to the survival of giant pandas. Threats to the pandas are us humans, snow leopards, and jackals. The humans pose a threat becaus we are destroying their homes with agriculture spreading. Snow leopards pose a threat because the eat small pandas because they are defenseless. A female panda reaches sexual maturity between the ages of 4-8. Then they only ovulate once a year for around 10 days so they have a quick need to become pregnant. When the female becomes impregnated they will carry the baby for 95-160 days after mating. A cub will stay with its mother foe 3 years. At the young ages they rely on their mothers to take care of their needs but once reached the age where they can take care of themselves they leave the family to find a mate.

The organization of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Is working to save pandas, They are setting u research centers and have numerous spaces where they keep the pandas and watch after them so no poachers attack them. They are also working with the Chinese government to set up save forest for the pandas to live and roam freely. With their efforts of the WWF the panda population has increased.

To help save the panda we could try to decrees the amount of deforestation in the country's where pandas live. We can step up more protected areas where the pandas live and keep them protected from poachers. We can also protect their food sources because with a decrees of bamboo the panda will not have enough to eat and not enough energy to live.



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