Summary: The Chinese government has announced that the population of wild giant pandas has increased by 17% just in the last decade. China is home to the world's only population of this species of panda. China held their fourth National Giant Panda Survey, supported in part by the World Wildlife Fund. The Chinese government has not released all of the data they collected, though they released some information to the public. The statistics recorded report that there are now 1,864 wild giant pandas living in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. This is up from 1,596 estimated animals in a 2003 report, the last time the population of these pandas was surveyed. China has established 27 additional reserves where these pandas can live since the last survey.
Analysis: The reserves worked!! The efforts made to preserve these pandas lives is admirable. And it's nice to hear about a population increasing versus what we usually hear about when it comes to endangered animals, decreasing! Hopefully giant panda numbers will continue to increase as well as the populations of all other endangered species in China.
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-giant-pandas-animals-science-conservation-china/
This is great news! I know that a lot of species are going extinct so I think it's cool that the panda population is growing again.
ReplyDeleteI love all animals especially pandas and im glad that this was at least one more species saved from extinction and i hope new methods are created so other endangred species can possibly be saved
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