Giant Panda Information Report.

This is my information report about giant pandas.



Giant pandas might look tall and threatening, but they are actually gentle and endangered. The pandas are very rare, China used to have a  lot of them but that number is slowly dwindling.

Appearance

Giant pandas have a white body with black patches. They are quite tall (An adult panda is 60 to 90 cm tall). Giant Pandas are 1 to 2 feet long, they can weigh up to 100 to 115 kgs. Male pandas are bigger than female ones. Giant pandas are massive like the rest of their family (Bears).

Diet

Giant Pandas eat bamboo, like all pandas. They need to eat 12 to 38kgs of bamboo every day to meet their energy needs, (Bamboo has very little nutritional value, so the panda’s have to eat lots of it). There isn’t much bamboo for the pandas to eat because people use bamboo to make products that they advertise on TV. Occasionally, pandas will eat other things like small rodents, fish, eggs and other flora (They are omnivores).

Habitat

Giant pandas are found in lots of different countries, most of them however are found in China. They naturally inhabit the mountain forests of southwestern China. They once lived on flat land but loss of habitat forced them to retreat into the mountains. In the wild, 1,600 giant pandas are left, trying to survive (With another 300 pandas in zoos or breeding centers). Habitat destruction made pandas go into mountains 1,200 to 3,100 meters above the sea level (It has affected them a lot: there home keeps on shrinking) . They have to live in 20,000 square kilometers.

Threats

Giant pandas face many threats, the main ones are: Poaching and habitat destruction. Many pandas are basically homeless because of people chopping down bamboo for products like the bamboo pillow and bamboo furniture.

Giant pandas are gentle and endangered. In order for the giant pandas to survive and roam freely, people need to stop destroying their food sources and habitat. They need to find the resources for their products somewhere else. They need to have enough supplies in order for them to live and repopulate.