Panda bears are an endangered species

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Pan-Pan starts telling his story to Tiffi

“My sister and I were still very young when these two men showed up,” says Pan-Pan. “I heard them say that they were from the Zoo de Barcelona. They were discussing why panda bears are endangered.”

‘The biggest reason they are critically endangered today, is deforestation on the part of humans, which has led to permanent habitat loss in some areas. Wild pandas once roamed bamboo forests in China, Vietnam, Laos and Burma. Today, wild pandas are found only in China, and in far fewer numbers than ever before. Scientists estimate that there are only around 1,800 wild pandas alive today.

Habitat loss spells certain doom for pandas. If a bamboo forest is cleared away, then the pandas' food source is gone. Relocating to another forest is often impossible, as forests today have become separated from one another, thanks to human cities and towns. Without access to a steady source of bamboo, pandas whose forests are cleared will perish from starvation.’ (Info here)

Tiffi finds this fascinating but sad at the same time.

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