The Degradation of the Panda Environment

The Degradation of the Panda Environment

Degradation of the Panda Environment

Thesis Statement:

The panda population is in danger of extinction due to human activities. These human activities include taking over the parts of China that are forested, cutting down trees, and even killing pandas.

Introduction:

Bamboo is the ample of the grasses. Standing greater than any other, it provides refuge and food for limited and extraordinary species such as the great panda of China. Two reports of the UN environment reveal that one third of the world’s 1200 species of woody bamboo are in peril of extinction. Bamboo has many different uses such as for musical instruments and equipment. Also, bamboo has potency and durability. One can work with bamboo at ease and effortlessly. Another advantage of bamboo is that it is extremely stable, and light. Some other uses of bamboo include foot bridges, alternative energy, kitchenware, air fresheners, health and beauty products, clothing, etc,. The endurance of numerous potentially important and valuable bamboo species may be vulnerable, as they originate and mature in forests that are shriveling under human pressure.

Body:

Human Involvement

“The Western China Development Program, calls for substantial infrastructure development, hydropower generation, ecotourism development, and economic incentives to encourage domestic and international investment” (Loucks, 2001). This initiative will haul in additional Chinese citizens into the region, and tax an already encumbrance land. Pandas are menaced by an expiration of habitat, poaching and a significantly low reproduction rate. The State Forestry Administration of China and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conducted a survey and found out that habitat fragmentation, unsustainable development, and poaching continue to pose great threats to the tenacious and lifelong survival of endangered giant pandas, which live exclusively in one small region in fast developing China. Pandas...