Pandas in peril

According to a new survey, the giant panda is very sensitive to the size of its habitat, and some areas specializing in conservation are too small to keep these animals.

Protectionists estimate that there are about 2,000 huge pandas in the wild, both of them living in the mountains of Sichuan Province, Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province in the middle and south.

As the range extends far beyond Myanmar and Vietnam, human intrusion means that there is only one small isolated pocket to support these animals. Efforts are being made to save the panda These efforts have been quite successful and have doubled since the 1980s.

However, according to a study published by Science Report magazine this week by scientists Jing Qing et al. Of Western Western Normal University of China, this means that unless you pay more attention to space problems it will not help.

The Chinese team accounted for nearly 80% of the total available habitat, using the latest data from the currently available five panda habitats, and calculated the minimum required area (MAR) of the panda.

MAR is the number of physical habitats needed to maintain the population of a particular species. Some animals are more sensitive to this area than other animals and require additional space to return in case of adverse circumstances such as climate change, food abundance, breeding speed, disease, This situation is different.

The Qing team divided the Panda collection into over 5,000 proper habitat "patches" and then compared the relative size of these patches to see how the huge panda would affect the possibility of living there . As a result, the giant panda is sensitive to this area, and the MAR of each population is found to be at least 114.7 square kilometers.

To be encouraged, many of the areas reserved for pandas are sufficient to sustain a viable population, and the team will have a "corridor" so that animals can move between them and reach the desired threshold We were able to emphasize areas that can be linked via. . Support the animals. Even more worrying is that the southern region of Xiaoxiangling is highly dispersed due to human invasion and the largest adjacent habitat is only 81.7 square kilometers.

In line with the results of the team, this is the smallest and most threatened region of the giant panda. Previously, capture animals were reintroduced into this area to support that number, but as the Chinese team pointed out, their findings suggest that this is not a sustainable solution It is. Instead, they emphasize that efforts need to focus on increasing the size of the habitat patch, so a small patch can be merged into something near the MAR.

The only remaining panda habitat is on the eastern end of the mountainous areas of Western China, Sichuan Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province. The giant panda lives mainly in Sichuan Province (so the name is "Giant Panda Land"). Giant panda usually live in bamboo forest. To protect huge panda habitat, China has over 50 nature reserves. Foping Nature Reserve is wet all year round and is suitable for giant panda 55% of the forest is the main food of bamboo and giant panda. Many giant pandas live in this protected area of ​​350 square kilometers (140 square miles), approximately one kilometer with an area of ​​2.5 kilometers. It is very possible to cross a panda. At the time of writing, the reserves are not open to travelers.

Is the giant panda a bear? For years, scientists have been thinking about whether a huge panda is a bear, a raccoon, or something else. Scientists confirmed the relationship between panda and bear by studying the genetic code (DNA) of giant panda cells. The general appearance of the giant panda, the way of walking and climbing, the characteristics of the skull, and the characteristics of important social systems and reproductive biology are similar to those of other bears. You need to know that the giant panda is a bear. The more we know about giant panda, they can help breed and survive.

Please be careful to help us get together to save these pandas. Panda is a wonderful symbolic creature, but without your help it may be the end of them. Please help save the life of the pandas and the possibility of their extinction. A huge panda in danger is still a problem in today's society. But with the help you can save the life of the huge panda in danger of extinction. Pandas are big black and white bears and like to support themselves. The giant panda never gives birth to many babies, sometimes only one baby is born. Young pandas are rarely alive and they are not born enough to endanger extinction. According to Pandasinternational.org, "In the 1980s giant pandas and giant pandas were classified as endangered species and the number of pandas in the wild has decreased to about 1600." These huge pandas in danger of endangered and find ways to help them die out