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Why save the giant panda from extinction?
For every six million people living in the world, there is only one giant panda living in the wild. Ideally, there should be more human to panda ratio on our planet. Yet these numbers are quite astounding and saddening. Giant Pandas are disappearing left and right and are an endangered species due to human destruction of habitat and poaching. Yet organizations, such as WWF, are attempting to rescue these beautiful mammals by using a variety of strategies. Giant Pandas, like all creatures, have certain requirements in order to live. Unfortunately, they do not receive all the ones they need. The two main requirements Giant Pandas need to thrive are food and habitat. There are many food requirements; the most important is bamboo, which makes up at least 95% of their diet. Umbrella bamboo and arrow bamboo are their favored types of bamboo. Because bamboo is made mostly of fiber and contains little nutrition, Giant Pandas must eat about 26-33 pounds, or 650 shoots, per day to be healthy. That is about ten times the amount of food a human eats per day and about one-fourth of their body weight. Bamboo has an interesting growing cycle. It spends most of its life growing grassy leaves and stalks, but eventually it produces flowers, then seeds, then dies and the cycle starts over again. Most bamboo lives twelve to twenty years before flowering and dying; however, all bamboo of the same species dies simultaneously, so the Giant Panda's main source of food may disappear suddenly. This will cause them slight to great misfortune, as they have to move to new areas to find more able to be consumed.
To the Chinese culture it is to the utmost of importance to save these creatures. For generations and generations pandas have been sacred to Chinese emperors. Believing at one time to posses magical powers, emperors kept them as pets to roam free around the temple’s frolic bamboo gardens. Because pandas are such gentle humble and
For every six million people living in the world, there is only one giant panda living in the wild. Ideally, there should be more human to panda ratio on our planet. Yet these numbers are quite astounding and saddening. Giant Pandas are disappearing left and right and are an endangered species due to human destruction of habitat and poaching. Yet organizations, such as WWF, are attempting to rescue these beautiful mammals by using a variety of strategies. Giant Pandas, like all creatures, have certain requirements in order to live. Unfortunately, they do not receive all the ones they need. The two main requirements Giant Pandas need to thrive are food and habitat. There are many food requirements; the most important is bamboo, which makes up at least 95% of their diet. Umbrella bamboo and arrow bamboo are their favored types of bamboo. Because bamboo is made mostly of fiber and contains little nutrition, Giant Pandas must eat about 26-33 pounds, or 650 shoots, per day to be healthy. That is about ten times the amount of food a human eats per day and about one-fourth of their body weight. Bamboo has an interesting growing cycle. It spends most of its life growing grassy leaves and stalks, but eventually it produces flowers, then seeds, then dies and the cycle starts over again. Most bamboo lives twelve to twenty years before flowering and dying; however, all bamboo of the same species dies simultaneously, so the Giant Panda's main source of food may disappear suddenly. This will cause them slight to great misfortune, as they have to move to new areas to find more able to be consumed.
To the Chinese culture it is to the utmost of importance to save these creatures. For generations and generations pandas have been sacred to Chinese emperors. Believing at one time to posses magical powers, emperors kept them as pets to roam free around the temple’s frolic bamboo gardens. Because pandas are such gentle humble and