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Species name: Panda

Problem: Habitat loss or Deforestation: Some people keeps destroying the panda’s habitat for more land

Solution: They should stop destroying or else the pandas would have no where to live and would die out. Pandas and their habitats should be protected and people should be fined if they destroy the habitats.

Implication: The implications are people might have not enough land for more housing

Further Solution: Pandas only have a little area in the mountain to live, so people should just rebuild apartments, or other houses and make it bigger for people to live in. Protect the pandas habitat by using less paper, or planting more bamboos for the pandas.

Problem: Food shortage. Destroying the panda’s habitats also leads to food shortage. Pandas can eat up to 14 hours a day and if there are not enough bamboo, the pandas might starve to death.

Solution: Don’t destroy the habitats.

Implication: The implications of food shortage is that it needs people to stop cutting down too many trees and bamboos, so people has to use less paper.

Further Solution: We can educate people by sharing about why we should not destroy the pandas habitats and food in the internet

Problem: Poaching

Solution: People hunt for pandas for their fur to sell and it is expensive. We should not buy anything made from pandas so people will stop hunting them.

Implication: The implications of poaching is that some people may be upset because that is how they earn money.

Further Solution: People that are caught selling things made from animals should be fined or arrested.

Basic Information

Pandas are also known as Ailuropoda melanoleuca. They can live up to 20 years. They are omnivores, but they mainly eat bamboo shoots, leaves and roots. Occasionally, they eat other plants, small animals, and carcasses. There were hidden cameras at the Baishuijiang National Reserve in Gansu province in China captured wild pandas eating meat and fighting. They can eat up to 14 hours a day.

Pandas are old enough to mate when they reach 5.5 to 6.5 years old. Their mating season is usually in Spring, which is between March and May. Pandas are solitary animals This usually means there are few males in the vicinity of a female panda in heat. As few as two and as many as five will typically compete for the right to breed. The female panda will attract her mate with scent-marking, which is rubbing against trees and urinating, and bleating calls. Their gestation period is 95-160 days and they usually give birth to only one cub. If the female gives birth to two cubs, she would abandon the weaker one and it would eventually die after birth. The reproductive rate is about 1 cub every 2 years. Most pandas leave their mother when she becomes pregnant again after 18 months, but if she doesn’t conceive,  the mother will live with their cubs for two years, then leave the cub to fend for itself.

Why are they endangered?

There are a lot of reasons why pandas are endangered. One of the main reasons why the population of pandas has declined is habitat destruction. As the human population in China continues to grow, pandas’ habitat gets taken over by development, pushing them to smaller and less livable areas. Habitat destruction also leads to food shortages. Pandas feed on several varieties of bamboo that bloom at different times of the year. If one type of bamboo is destroyed by development, it can leave the pandas with nothing to eat during the time it normally blooms, increasing the risk of starvation. Paper is also made out of bamboo and if we waste paper, a lot of the bamboo will be gone. The wild panda’s population had increased by 17% in a decade up to 2014.

Another reason why is because of poaching. People hunt for the panda’s fur to sell, it was sold for $65,000 once! In addition to this, it isn’t too hard to capture a panda from the wild. Groups of around 6 to 10 people go out into the wild and when they find a panda they have some heavy duty material in between two sticks of bamboo and put the panda onto the material and carry it to their car then drive off with it.

How to help the pandas?

We should educate some people, and tell them why we shouldn’t kill pandas and destroy their habitats. One of the reasons why people visit China is to visit the pandas. If they become extinct, the number of tourists might decrease.

We also shouldn’t buy things made from pandas, because it might encourage more people to hunt for pandas to make more money. We should protect the pandas and their habitats.

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Bibliography:

I have found out that pandas are increasing in population now since they are being more protected. Their population has increased nearly 17% the last decade.

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Hashtags:

#Pandas
This hashtag is important because it has many people talking about my endangered species, pandas, and tweeting about important informations.

#GiantPanda
This hashtag is also talking about my endangered species and sharing informations.

#KASendangered
This hashtag has many students from KAS sharing about their endangered species.

#Endangered
This hashtag is important because it mentions many different endangered species and you would be able to find many informations about different endangered species.

#EndangeredSpecies
This hashtag also talks about many endangered species and many information about them.

#WWFpanda
This hashtag is an organization that shares more about pandas, like their habitat, how they live, their environment, and many more other things.

#EndangeredSpeciesDay
This talks about facts and informations about endangered species and what we should do to stop them from being endangered.

Organizations:

@WWF
This is a well known organization and it talks a lot about pandas and shares facts and many important informations about them. Not only do they share about pandas, they also share informations about other animals too.

@NWF (National Wildlife)
This organization mentions many different types of animals, and I could find some information about pandas.

@Endangered
This organization talks about endangered species and tells us what to do to prevent them from being endangered.

@NatGeo (National Geographic)
This organization also talks about many animals and they sometimes share videos.

@PandasInt (Pandas International)
This account talks about pandas and I can find some informations about why pandas are endangered and they also share videos of pandas.

Twitter Comment:

In this unit, I learnt many new things that I wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t taught in class. We had to do many interesting things like read a new book about dystopia, and create a perfect society.

For the book reading, we had to finish it by fifteen days and that made me manage my time better as i needed to plan when to start reading. Every night after reading, we had to write something about what we read. It made me more aware of what was happening in the book as I usually skip some informations whenever I read a book. After the fifteen days, our groups gathered together to answer and ask questions about the book. I learnt many new interesting things about the book.After reading, we had to annotate a short dystopia story, then create a mind map to compare the similarities and differences about both the short story and the story book.

Finally, we had to create a perfect society. We had to create the laws, flags, maps, and many other things needed in a community. It was fun and a little hard. We then had to present them in groups and I saw many interesting communities in my group.

Overall, this unit was interesting since we got to read a new book, create a community, and learn more about dystopia and utopia.

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This story is about a girl named Adeline and her family treats her way worse than her siblings because her real mother died giving birth to her. Everyone calls her bad luck. When she achieve awards and get good grades in school, her father praises her, but her siblings tells her to stop bragging and picks on her. She has an abusive step mother that doesn’t care about her. Only her Aunt cares and loves her. I wrote about the more important parts of the story.