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A Place For Pandas

A Place For Pandas. A PowerPoint On the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries By Taylor Minor. The Sichuan Sanctuaries. Located in Southwestern Sichuan Province Has seven nature reserves and nine parks Covers 9245 km². More Than Just Pandas.

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A Place For Pandas

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  1. A Place For Pandas A PowerPoint On the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries By Taylor Minor

  2. The Sichuan Sanctuaries • Located in Southwestern Sichuan Province • Has seven nature reserves and nine parks • Covers 9245 km²

  3. More Than Just Pandas • The Sichuan Sanctuaries are home to over 30% of the worlds endangered pandas • They are also places of refuge to red pandas (pictured), snow leopards, and clouded leopards

  4. Why so important? • The main population of pandas are in the Wolong Sanctuary in the northeast, the Fengtongzhai in the southeast, and Mountain Provincial Parks in the southwest • They are also home to 20% of china’s endangered animals • Have 100’s of rare species of plants and trees called “living fossils” • Also keeps the pandas from coming to any harm

  5. Peculiar Panda… • The Red Panda, which looks more like a raccoon, is about 42 inches long • They can weigh from 7 pounds up to 14 pounds! • Their natural habitat is bamboo forests but now that they are endangered many are in sanctuaries like the Sichuan

  6. Spotted Species • The clouded leopard’s natural habitat is in forest’s of Asia • The clouded leopard’s population is so small that scientists are classifying them as a completely different species from regular leopards

  7. More Spots • Like the clouded leopard, the snow leopard is not believed to be close to the leopard species or the Pantherine group (big cats) • Found in mountains of central Asia, also ranging in the North through Russia, and Mongolia, China and Tibet, through Afghanistan Himalayan regions, and Pakistan • Although they live in many places there are only a few of the leopards

  8. Pandas!! • Giant Panda’s natural homes are in southwestern China forests • They are loved by Chinese who call them “large bear-cats” • Scientists think the panda got it’s colors by developing them so they could stand out in the forest and be able to find each other • For many years people weren’t sure if pandas were bears, raccoons, or in a group all their own, but DNA confirmed they are most closely related to bears • Pandas are about the size of a stick of butter at birth and helpless, so the mothers do not leave dens for days, even for food or water! • Bamboo is very important in a panda’s life. They spend 12 hours a day eating around 84 pounds of bamboo! But they also eat grasses, bulbs, plants, some insects, and sometimes small rodents. • There are only around 1,600 pandas left today. There are many reasons such as low reproduction rate, bamboo shortages, habitat destruction, and hunting

  9. Visiting the Site • The main reason I would want to go is that it is a beautiful and natural home to many endangered animals. Some of them may be gone soon and we wont be able to see them again!

  10. Bibliography • http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/giantpanda.html • http://spanishchina.org.cn/english/whp/216160.htm • http://www.cloudedleopard.org/default.aspx?link=about_main • http://www.abf90.dial.pipex.com/snowlep.htm • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giantpanda.html

  11. Hope You Enjoyed my PowerPoint!!!! BYE BYE

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