Sentences with phrase «panda habitat in»

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The Chinese government decided to capture as many wild pandas as possible and place them in rescue centers built throughout the animal's habitat, in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 foresIn 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 foresin favorable panda habitat patches, thanks to sweeping nation - wide conservation efforts to curb deforestation and return cropland to forest.

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.

But Jianguo «Jack» Liu, the MSU Rachel Carson Chair in sustainability and paper co-author, notes that habitat fragmentation, human impacts and climate change still cast a shadow over the panda's future.

«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.

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.

And these humans» demands for fuel for heating and cooking mean prime panda forest habitat is disappearing more than four times as fast as it was before the reserve was established in 1975....

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.