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Lexie and Dani We split up the questions and each did half the locations for google earth.
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 * 1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics?**

Giant Pandas habitat is in forests covered with bamboo. Sometimes the bamboo is so tall up to 5,000 and 10,000 ft. The forests are often covered with thick clouds. The Giant Panda lives mostly in China. They sometimes live in mountain ranges. Giant Pandas do not migrate.
 * Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)**

There is only one subspecies that is related to the giant panda and it is called the red panda.
 * Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal**

The Giant Panda is a black and white bear. The colors are used for camouflage in their snowy and rocky habitat. The mouth is very strong used for eating bamboo. The pandas diet revolves around bamboo. The body weight is 99% bamboo. They get most the water they need from eating bamboo. A life span of the wild giant panda is not yet known. Yet for a panda in the zoo, the life span usually ranges around 35 years old. The Giant Panda
 * Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal**

The giant panda use to live in all of east china now pandas only live in the Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. They are endangered everywhere they live but there are very few giant pandas in the lowlands of china because they have had to move to the mountains because of the development poaching is the main anthropogenic factor. The increasing human populations threaten pandas, which lead to habitat loss. Also bamboo is sparse and dieing off. In 2004, a new survey counted 1,600 pandas 40% more than were thought to exist in the 1980s. Panda habitat is increasing with the development of new reserves and green corridors. Some threats to panda survival such as poaching and illegal logging have been significantly reduced Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.
 * 2. Where and why is your animal endangered?**
 * Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)**
 * Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered**
 * Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment**
 * 3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?**

The Chinese government established over 50 reserves for pandas that helped to protect of 45% of the giant pandas Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation** The major group helping conservation is the WWF. The CBSG, the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, the San Diego Zoo, the University of California at Davis, the Columbus Zoo and Zoo Atlanta the Chengdu Zoo, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and the Beijing Zoo all are working together to help conservervation of the Giant panda.
 * 4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?**
 * Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)

There is alot of reasearch being done to help conserve the giant panda popullation. For instance there is the CRES, WWF, and many more conservation centers trying to help. Zoo Atlanta is trying to learn better about the animals attitudes and behavior. This will hep us save the pandas. There are many different ways in which people are trying to help.
 * Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population**


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INFO- National zoo- http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/Panda Facts/default.cfm Smithsonian national zoo- http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/RedPanda/factsheet.cfm U.S. Wildlife service- http://www.fws.gov/species/species_accounts/bio_pand.html [|http://www.panda.org-Giant] panda [|http://www.umich.edu-Giant] Panda The giant panda / by Judith Janda Presnall. [|http://nationalzoo.si.edu]- facts giant Panda** "Wolong National Natural Reserve." __Travel China Guide__. 28 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.travelchinaguide.com>.] "Our Goals." __Panda__. 2007. 28 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.panda.org.cn>.] "About Us." __Defenders of Wildlife__. 28 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.defenders.org>.] "Help Give the Giant Panda the Future It Deserves." __WWF__. 29 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.wwf.org.uk>.] "Scientific Research." __Panda__. 2007. 29 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.panda.org.cn/english/us/1.htm>.]
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