Sentences with phrase «panda habitat»

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

Their study, published last April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that some of the best places to grow wine grapes in 2050 will overlap with panda habitat in China, as well as regions north of Yellowstone National Park where land is being set aside for bears, antelope, mountain lions and other species.

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

But other threats are worsening: «There are a lot more roads slicing and dicing panda habitat than there were 40 years ago.»

In the new study, Ouyang and colleagues used satellite data collected between 1976 and 2013 to measure changes in all available panda habitat in the six mountain regions in central China that comprise its range.

The researchers also discovered that forests in lower elevations — areas not generally targeted for panda habitat — are not being protected in the same way.

A paper by Michigan State University panda habitat experts published in this week's Journal for Nature Conservation explores an oft - hidden yet significant conflict in conservation.

Efforts to conserve panda habitat have benefited both other animals and plants, but also has benefited humans by bolstering forests to sequester greenhouse gases, and retain water and soil.

Jack Liu (left) and Jindong Zhang talk to a farmer in the Wolong Nature Reserve about the impact livestock can have on panda habitat.

What they see is agreement that high - quality panda habitat is indeed growing.

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

The MSU team takes both a finer, and broader, look at panda habitat and finds gaps in understanding.

In fact, they also find that areas outside nature reserves are showing increases in favorable panda habitat patches, thanks to sweeping nation - wide conservation efforts to curb deforestation and return cropland to forest.

«We witnessed pretty intense periods when it seemed like everyone in the target areas were out planting,» said co-author Vanessa Hull, a CSIS doctoral candidate who studies panda habitat in Wolong.

The wild panda population, they say, has increased nearly 17 percent to 1,864 pandas and panda habitat also has improved.

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

It gives us the chance to protect the most important areas for other native species while protecting more panda habitats.»

«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.

«Panda habitat has been increasing since 2001,» he says.

«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.

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.

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