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How Climate Change In China's Minshan Mountain Range Affects Giant Pandas

The Basics

The

Basics

Panda in the Wild

Giant Pandas

Giant Pandas are bears native to China, specifically the lowland areas, but they have since been pushed to the temperate forests in the mountains of southwestern China. Their diets consist of up to 98% bamboo and they need to eat anywhere around 25 to 50 pounds of bamboo per day. There are only 1,864 left in the wild today.

Minshan Mountains

The Minshan Mountains is a mountain range in central China. This range supports almost half of the Giant Panda species. Over the past half-century, the temperature of this range has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius. This has decreased precipitation

The Cause

The

Cause

The warming of the Earth is causing temperatures to rise and rainfall to go down in the Minshan mountains. This hurts all life in that area, but hurts bamboo especially because bamboo only grows in cool, wet environments, therefore bamboo growth is reduced and so are habitats and food for Giant Pandas

The Effect

The

Effect

Dying Bamboo Stalks

Effect on Pandas

Effect on Pandas

The lack of bamboo growth leaves Giant Pandas with many more issues besides habitat loss and food scarcity. One such problem is scientists will be less able to help the species survive as they are forced into other habitats that are not already within protected zones.

Effect on Environment

Effect on Environment

The effects on the environment if the Giant Panda species were to go extinct would be enormous. One of the biggest effects would be bamboo stops spreading. Pandas spread bamboo seeds through their feces and with bamboo already struggling to grow, this could decimate species populations. This would also create an imbalance in the ecosystem which could then spread through it.

The Conclusion

The

Conclusion

Although it will not be an easy task, we must not let Giant Pandas go extinct and have to do everything we can to prevent that. Although populations are only present in one country, they are too important to that ecosystem to not save.

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