Sentences with phrase «of panda habitats»

Chinese government legislation could see 15 per cent of panda habitats sold off for commercial use, but they could be protected for just $ 1.3 billion

This study for the first time examines changes across the whole geographic range of panda habitat.

The area of panda habitat exposed to temperatures of 30 °C has increased from 332 to 4482 square kilometres over the past 40 years.

Not exact matches

The charity's goal is to raise $ 50 million to support the pandas and to cover the cost of their habitat at the Central Park Zoo.

The knowledge spurred forest managers to change the rules and get horses out of prime panda habitat.

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.

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Population pressure from the reserve's human residents is to blame for most of the destruction of the forest and panda habitat, the scientists say.

«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.

While breeding and reintroduction programs are becoming more effective by providing more pandas to bolster the wild populations, conservationists believe that learning more about the importance of personality combinations in breeding success could ultimately help boost the number of pandas even further — not only in accredited zoos, but also in their habitats in China.

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

«Panda habitat shrinking, becoming more fragmented: Modern GIS technologies could improve our assessment of the species» extinction risks.»

To make matters worse, previously uncultivated areas — the habitats of pandas, antelopes and wolves — especially in China and western North America will come under increasing pressure from wine growers.

«Banning commercial logging in natural forests, establishing nature reserves and helping residents in the reserve change behaviors that damaged habitat has been beneficial,» said Liu, who published Pandas and People (Oxford University Press) last year with four other authors of the new study.

The study, published Sept. 25 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, used geospatial technologies and remote sensing data to map recent land - use changes and the development of roads within the panda's habitat.

Study co-author Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University, who began studying the human and natural forces driving habitat loss in the panda's geographic range in 1996, noted that some of the changes that have occurred in the region are encouraging.

«Through this study, the pandas at the San Diego Zoo have made a significant contribution to our understanding of what may be affecting panda reproduction in habitats in China,» said Ron Swaisgood, director of applied animal ecology, San Diego Zoo Global.

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

New data about habitat temperature and panda distribution, collected across six mountains along the Chinese edge of the Tibetan plateau, confirm what climate models have been suggesting for a while: the animal is struggling to survive as its natural habitat gets hotter.

Researchers found that areas within the pandas» habitat, that were exposed to a potential heat stress of up to 30 °C had increased from 332 to 4482 square kilometres over the past 40 years.

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

Plus, you'll witness pandas in their natural habitat in Chengdu and wander the unique canal - lined warrens of Lijiang.

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 series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

The habitat in the Qinling Mountains is seriously fragmented and the population density is very high... the brown pandas could be an indication of local inbreeding.