Factors Declining SpeciesThe main reason for why there has been a large dropped in giant panda population is for the decrease of food supply. With climate change, it has drastically impacted many plants, mostly the bamboo tree's. These tree's are drying out at an alarming rate, that now the pandas will need to look for another resource of food. Also, the fact that they only has a 2-3 day period to be have to reproduce which in many cases, it does not happen often enough.
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Range of PandaGiant pandas mostly populate in south-central China. The estimated range for the the pandas are 30,000 sq. km. This would come to having at least 8,000-15,000 pandas.
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Long Term Survival? Recently, many zoo's have kept these pandas in conservation areas to allow the population to grow. Surprisingly, this method has worked. It is a slow process, but surely the population is growing. If this continues, the giant pandas will have a chance at long term survival.
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