Sentences with phrase «panda habitat also»

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.