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Giant Panda Habitat Lost

panda An earthquake in the Sichuan region of China last May caused horrific damage. Nearly 69,000 people died and millions were left homeless. Affected too were giant pandas. Roughly 23 percent of the giant panda habitat was destroyed, and a large portion of the remaining habitat was fragmented. The loss affects 60 percent of the wild giant panda population, putting this endangered species even more at risk.

To read more visit CNN.com.

To learn more about the giant panda read our article on Animal Fact Guide.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm and is filed under Animal News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Giant Panda Habitat Lost”

Lynn Highland Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Dear CNN: The article on the reduction of Panda habitat as a result of the
Sichuan earthquake did not mention that the reason the forests were denuded of vegetation was due to massive LANDSLIDES, triggered by the earthquake.

I visited the area in July 2008, shortly after the earthquake and observed that many of the mountain slopes in the area had experienced landslides that took down entire swaths of vegetation.

Lynn Highland
National Landslide Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
Richard D Says:
August 1st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
See my video of a giant panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aaD4FYnro and leave me a comment please Thanks.