Annotated Bibliography
WorldWildlife Fund. (n.d.) Giant Panda. Retrieved from https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda.
On this website, there was no specific author for the information on the website. Although there isn’t an author, this well-known organization runs the website. They get some help from a vast amount of experts that support them. These experts help them get information on the different animals they are trying to help and a good way to approach the situation. An example of an animal that they’re currently helping is the giant panda’s, which are also the animal I’m trying to raise awareness about as well. There was a vast amount of information from simple facts (such as population in the wild, status in the wild, height, weight and habitat) to why they matter in the wild. It also gets into the threats, such as, poaching and the destruction of their habitat and food. WWF is helping the giant panda’s by enforcing the laws that are protecting the giant panda’s more strictly and cutting off land specifically for the giant panda’s to live peacefully.
Cheng du Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. (2007). Conservation. Retrieved from http://www.panda.org.cn/english/conservation/overview/2013-09-12/2432.html
This website provides information on the breeding of pandas, explaining how they started, what they are doing to help sick and hungry pandas. The research facility is called the Cheng du Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. This Base was created on behalf of six sick and hungry giant pandas that were rescued in the 1980s. They have bred 261 giant pandas, and the number of existing giant pandas has hit 176 as of January 2017 since the opening of the base. These captive giant pandas are the largest artificial breeding population in the world, who are of exceptional genetic quality and positive individual and behavioral health conditions. In order to effectively research and implement conservation education and create conditions for the conservation education teams, the Base has made great efforts to develop, integrate and construct educational resources. In terms of resources, it integrates and utilizes its own superior resources in the conservation of giant pandas, such as environment, population, scientific research, venues, and tourists. For example, an ecological park of more than 1,500 meter, the largest artificially-bred and captive giant panda population in the world, advanced resources for giant panda scientific research, and millions of domestic and foreign tourists every year in the Base have created conditions for robust conservation education.
National Geographic. (2019, May 10). China’s New Panda Park will be ThreeTimes Bigger than Yellowstone. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/05/giant-pandas-national-park-china/#close
In this article, the author Jennifer S. Holland first talks about a natural disaster, an earthquake that happened 11 years ago in the Sichuan Province which is where a lot of China’s panda’s live. She explains that the Earthquake destroyed part of the Wolong Panda Center which was a key place for pandas breeding. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.0 which also destroyed some of the pandas' food and habitat. After explaining what the effects of the earthquake on the people of the Sichuan province, she explains a park for the pandas in the area that will be only for pandas and maybe some other endangered plants and animals. This park will supposedly be 3x the size of Yellowstone. Most of the land/park will be in the Sichuan Province which is home to more than 80% of the pandas in China. This park will bring together dozens of different panda reserves in the area where this park will be, and will also bring together several groups of pandas.
National Geographic. (n.d.). Giant Panda. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/g/giant-panda/
On this website, it provides a lot of background information on giant pandas and provides important facts and important things to know about giant pandas. The common name for giant pandas is giant panda and the scientific name for a giant panda is Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Giant panda’s are mammals and they are omnivores even though they mostly eat bamboo which is a plant, they can also eat meat if they have to. The average lifespan of a giant panda is 20 years. A giant panda can reach up to 4-5feet tall and can weigh up to 300 pounds. Giant panda’s IUCN Red List Status is vulnerable, therefore they are at high risk of extinction in the wild. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. Although giant pandas are still considered endangered, their population trend is increasing.
Sciencing. (2018, April 17). Why are Pandas Endangered Animals? Retrieved from https://sciencing.com/pandas-endangered-animals-5176027.html
This website explains why pandas are endangered. The Pandas are endangered mainly due to habitat loss. Humans have cleared much of the bamboo forests that pandas need to survive. Humans have cut down a lot of the pandas bamboo for agricultural reasons, such as roadways, railways and dams. Because pandas eat only bamboo, they cannot adapt to live outside of those forests the way other animals do, unless the pandas are provided with bamboo. Pandas also have difficulty reproducing, even in captivity, due to their extreme choosiness about their mates, their low-nutrient milk and the fact that they usually only have one viable cub at a time. Poaching is also an issue for pandas, since panda skins and pelts are valuable on the black market.
Pandas International. (n.d.). Panda Reserves. Retrieved from https://www.pandasinternational.org/panda-reserves/
This website provides information on what panda reserves around the world are doing to help pandas stay safe and alive. Some of the purposes of the panda reserves are to protect the forest or habitat of the giant pandas, protect bamboo, the Giant Pandas’ major food source, provide corridors for Giant Panda migrations between habitat areas, patrol the reserves to prevent poaching and logging, patrol the reserves to search for sick or injured Giant Pandas, take sick or injured Giant Pandas to nearest panda hospital for care, conduct research on Giant Panda behavior, mating, breeding, diseases, etc., educate tourists and visitors about Giant Panda protection, support communities adjacent to the reserves to minimize the need to use the Giant Panda habitat for their livelihood, Educate local residents about the value of conserving the Giant Pandas and how tourism to the region is beneficial.
Live Science. (2019, March 15). Giant Pandas: Facts About the Charismatic Black and White Bears. Retrieved from
https://www.livescience.com/27335-giant-pandas.html
On this website the author provides additional background information on giant pandas and additional information to know about giant pandas. The author explains that giant pandas are bears that are native to China, where they are considered a national treasure. Despite their exalted status, giant panda populations are vulnerable: fewer than 1,900 live in the wild, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. About 300 live in zoos around the world. For many years, scientists wondered whether pandas were a type of bear, raccoon or something all their own. But plenty of genetic studies have made it clear that pandas are a type of bear, according to the San Diego Zoo. Their bold coloring provides camouflage, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo, giant pandas are nearly invisible in dense patches of bamboo. The author also explains that pandas live in the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, according to the National Zoo. In this area, between 5,000 and 10,000 feet elevation, which are the cool, wet bamboo forests that giant panda's call home. The large bears make their dens from hollowed-out logs or stumps of conifer trees found within the forest.
Encyclopedia Britannica. (2020, February 10). Giant Panda. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/animal/giant-panda
This website went into deeper facts and deeper information. The author, Donald G. Lindburg explains, as much as 90–98 percent of the panda’s diet consists of the leaves, shoots, and stems of bamboo, a large grass available year-round in much of China’s forested regions. Despite adaptations in the forepaws, teeth, and jaws for bamboo consumption, the giant panda has retained the digestive system of the carnivore ancestry and is therefore unable to digest cellulose, a main constituent of bamboo. Pandas solve this problem by rapidly passing prodigious quantities of the grass through their digestive tracts on a daily basis. As much as 16 out of every 24 hours is spent feeding, and elimination of wastes occurs up to 50 times per day. Fossilized dental remains indicate that the giant panda committed to bamboo as its principal food source at least three million years ago. Although unable to capture prey, pandas retain a taste for meat, which is used as bait to capture them for radio collaring and has made them pests in human camps on occasion. The species cannot naturally survive outside bamboo forests, though in captivity they have been maintained on cereals, milk, and garden fruits and vegetables. Bamboo is the healthier diet for captive pandas.
On this website, there was no specific author for the information on the website. Although there isn’t an author, this well-known organization runs the website. They get some help from a vast amount of experts that support them. These experts help them get information on the different animals they are trying to help and a good way to approach the situation. An example of an animal that they’re currently helping is the giant panda’s, which are also the animal I’m trying to raise awareness about as well. There was a vast amount of information from simple facts (such as population in the wild, status in the wild, height, weight and habitat) to why they matter in the wild. It also gets into the threats, such as, poaching and the destruction of their habitat and food. WWF is helping the giant panda’s by enforcing the laws that are protecting the giant panda’s more strictly and cutting off land specifically for the giant panda’s to live peacefully.
Cheng du Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. (2007). Conservation. Retrieved from http://www.panda.org.cn/english/conservation/overview/2013-09-12/2432.html
This website provides information on the breeding of pandas, explaining how they started, what they are doing to help sick and hungry pandas. The research facility is called the Cheng du Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. This Base was created on behalf of six sick and hungry giant pandas that were rescued in the 1980s. They have bred 261 giant pandas, and the number of existing giant pandas has hit 176 as of January 2017 since the opening of the base. These captive giant pandas are the largest artificial breeding population in the world, who are of exceptional genetic quality and positive individual and behavioral health conditions. In order to effectively research and implement conservation education and create conditions for the conservation education teams, the Base has made great efforts to develop, integrate and construct educational resources. In terms of resources, it integrates and utilizes its own superior resources in the conservation of giant pandas, such as environment, population, scientific research, venues, and tourists. For example, an ecological park of more than 1,500 meter, the largest artificially-bred and captive giant panda population in the world, advanced resources for giant panda scientific research, and millions of domestic and foreign tourists every year in the Base have created conditions for robust conservation education.
National Geographic. (2019, May 10). China’s New Panda Park will be ThreeTimes Bigger than Yellowstone. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/05/giant-pandas-national-park-china/#close
In this article, the author Jennifer S. Holland first talks about a natural disaster, an earthquake that happened 11 years ago in the Sichuan Province which is where a lot of China’s panda’s live. She explains that the Earthquake destroyed part of the Wolong Panda Center which was a key place for pandas breeding. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.0 which also destroyed some of the pandas' food and habitat. After explaining what the effects of the earthquake on the people of the Sichuan province, she explains a park for the pandas in the area that will be only for pandas and maybe some other endangered plants and animals. This park will supposedly be 3x the size of Yellowstone. Most of the land/park will be in the Sichuan Province which is home to more than 80% of the pandas in China. This park will bring together dozens of different panda reserves in the area where this park will be, and will also bring together several groups of pandas.
National Geographic. (n.d.). Giant Panda. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/g/giant-panda/
On this website, it provides a lot of background information on giant pandas and provides important facts and important things to know about giant pandas. The common name for giant pandas is giant panda and the scientific name for a giant panda is Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Giant panda’s are mammals and they are omnivores even though they mostly eat bamboo which is a plant, they can also eat meat if they have to. The average lifespan of a giant panda is 20 years. A giant panda can reach up to 4-5feet tall and can weigh up to 300 pounds. Giant panda’s IUCN Red List Status is vulnerable, therefore they are at high risk of extinction in the wild. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species. Although giant pandas are still considered endangered, their population trend is increasing.
Sciencing. (2018, April 17). Why are Pandas Endangered Animals? Retrieved from https://sciencing.com/pandas-endangered-animals-5176027.html
This website explains why pandas are endangered. The Pandas are endangered mainly due to habitat loss. Humans have cleared much of the bamboo forests that pandas need to survive. Humans have cut down a lot of the pandas bamboo for agricultural reasons, such as roadways, railways and dams. Because pandas eat only bamboo, they cannot adapt to live outside of those forests the way other animals do, unless the pandas are provided with bamboo. Pandas also have difficulty reproducing, even in captivity, due to their extreme choosiness about their mates, their low-nutrient milk and the fact that they usually only have one viable cub at a time. Poaching is also an issue for pandas, since panda skins and pelts are valuable on the black market.
Pandas International. (n.d.). Panda Reserves. Retrieved from https://www.pandasinternational.org/panda-reserves/
This website provides information on what panda reserves around the world are doing to help pandas stay safe and alive. Some of the purposes of the panda reserves are to protect the forest or habitat of the giant pandas, protect bamboo, the Giant Pandas’ major food source, provide corridors for Giant Panda migrations between habitat areas, patrol the reserves to prevent poaching and logging, patrol the reserves to search for sick or injured Giant Pandas, take sick or injured Giant Pandas to nearest panda hospital for care, conduct research on Giant Panda behavior, mating, breeding, diseases, etc., educate tourists and visitors about Giant Panda protection, support communities adjacent to the reserves to minimize the need to use the Giant Panda habitat for their livelihood, Educate local residents about the value of conserving the Giant Pandas and how tourism to the region is beneficial.
Live Science. (2019, March 15). Giant Pandas: Facts About the Charismatic Black and White Bears. Retrieved from
https://www.livescience.com/27335-giant-pandas.html
On this website the author provides additional background information on giant pandas and additional information to know about giant pandas. The author explains that giant pandas are bears that are native to China, where they are considered a national treasure. Despite their exalted status, giant panda populations are vulnerable: fewer than 1,900 live in the wild, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. About 300 live in zoos around the world. For many years, scientists wondered whether pandas were a type of bear, raccoon or something all their own. But plenty of genetic studies have made it clear that pandas are a type of bear, according to the San Diego Zoo. Their bold coloring provides camouflage, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo, giant pandas are nearly invisible in dense patches of bamboo. The author also explains that pandas live in the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, according to the National Zoo. In this area, between 5,000 and 10,000 feet elevation, which are the cool, wet bamboo forests that giant panda's call home. The large bears make their dens from hollowed-out logs or stumps of conifer trees found within the forest.
Encyclopedia Britannica. (2020, February 10). Giant Panda. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/animal/giant-panda
This website went into deeper facts and deeper information. The author, Donald G. Lindburg explains, as much as 90–98 percent of the panda’s diet consists of the leaves, shoots, and stems of bamboo, a large grass available year-round in much of China’s forested regions. Despite adaptations in the forepaws, teeth, and jaws for bamboo consumption, the giant panda has retained the digestive system of the carnivore ancestry and is therefore unable to digest cellulose, a main constituent of bamboo. Pandas solve this problem by rapidly passing prodigious quantities of the grass through their digestive tracts on a daily basis. As much as 16 out of every 24 hours is spent feeding, and elimination of wastes occurs up to 50 times per day. Fossilized dental remains indicate that the giant panda committed to bamboo as its principal food source at least three million years ago. Although unable to capture prey, pandas retain a taste for meat, which is used as bait to capture them for radio collaring and has made them pests in human camps on occasion. The species cannot naturally survive outside bamboo forests, though in captivity they have been maintained on cereals, milk, and garden fruits and vegetables. Bamboo is the healthier diet for captive pandas.