Sentences with phrase «giant panda habitat»

It's the country's first Land Trust Reserve, and «one of the most important remaining pieces of giant panda habitat left in the world,» Conservancy scientists say.

«The existing isolated and partially unsuitable islands of giant panda habitat need to be expanded and connected if the species is to survive.»

China invests billions to protect giant panda habitat and preserve the 1,600 remaining endangered wildlife icons living there.

«Our computer simulations suggest that even if only 22 percent of the reserve's young people relocate as a result of attending college, getting married, or taking outside jobs, the human population in the reserve would be reduced to about 700 by the year 2047, and the giant panda habitat would recover and then increase by 7 percent,» says Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University, the lead author of the study.

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The number of giant pandas in the wild is reportedly on the rise, and satellite data suggest that a steady decline in the species» habitat has been halted.

Currently, scientists count nearly 2,000 giant pandas living in their native habitats — and the majority of them are adults.

A study published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation may help field conservationists better understand the potential for human activities to disturb endangered giant pandas in native habitats.

«China's protection of giant pandas good for other species too: Panda preserves providing habitat for other endangered, threatened species.»