Habitat 'Shrinking And Becoming More Fragmented' By Helen Briggs

The book ‘Wildlife’ by Fiona Wood demonstrates several themes and techniques that are created by the author. ‘Wildlife’ is based on the students from Crowthorne Grammar and about their love lives, friendships and not fitting in. The novel includes challenging teenage moments, emotions decision-making, changes in friendship and the progress into adulthood. This essay will further discuss in detail the techniques, themes that are shown and used by the characters and how the author demonstrated a teenager’s life.

The article discussed the changes in many habitats due to anthropogenic activity. Anthropogenic is an adjective that describes changes in nature due to the people. Next, this article discussed climate change and the impact that it is having on species like clams, and fish due to ocean temperatures rising. The article also addressed carbon dating of fossils to look for cause of extinctions. Human development and agriculture have had a tremendous impact on the population of many species that are terrestrial. Deforestation is a big problem that has caused a decline in the bird species. Commercial fishing in many areas has led to a decline in fish populations. Furthermore this article

Alex Rose Chapter 10-11 Sustaining Biodiversity 1. I do not support the reintroduction of the gray wolf into the Yellowstone ecosystem in the United States. Although the reintroduction helps restore and sustain its biodiversity, some feared that wolves would kill many big animals, inviting the government to halt on their operation. I believe the gray wolf shouldn't be expanded to areas outside the park due to its danger as an animal. Keeping them in Yellowstone ecosystem would make it easier on the government as well.

Ever since the trees got chop down the pandas population is going down the hole state has over billion people. Everything when roads are made,homes,cities,and even farms. They even,plant trees, and other resources. The giant panda shrank as trees has grow. The panda habit was decreased by a haft between 1972 and 1985.

The Red Panda's habitat, mostly Himalayan Forests are being cut down at an alarming rate each year. Usually they are cut down for logging or space to farm. Also, when spaces of forests are cut down that forces Red Panda to separate and mate in the same area which could lower genetic diversity within the red panda species. The destruction of the forests also lead to food shortages which can lead to some pandas’ starvation.

To begin, imagine if you were reading a book about creatures helping people with struggles. Did you know fictional creatures actually help some people out with their problems and such? There are actually books about that or passages that explain how creatures can help people with problems. This can be seen in three passages that are called "Here Comes The Zombies" by Kathiann M, "Ghosts Across Europe" by Joan Rockwell, and "Fact or Fiction? The Creatures of Scotland" by Christine Graf.

One of the most treasure animals in China are Pandas. However, they are endangered animals, only 1,600 of them living across the wild. Pandas are found in mountainous areas in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, in Central China. There is only one species which is the Giant Panda Bear. They are the rarest and don’t hibernate. Pandas can grow to 250 pounds, the weight of a normal human, and are 5.25 to 6 feet long. Pandas live to 14-20 years in the wild, 35 years captive.

Pandas have been on Earth for about two to three million years. They are descendants from their ancestral carnivores; bears, racoons, dogs, and cats. The primal panda, Ailurarctos lufengensis was around about 8 million years ago until went extinct in the late Miocene era. These mammals have not changed since evolution. The earliest pandas were small until 3 million years ago, when larger pandas developed. These mammals have not changed since evolution. The biggest changes they have undertaken have been their habitat and the size of their body. Fossils of the modern Giant Pandas date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, 600,000 years ago. Pandas adapted to the widespread variety of plant resources in southern Asia. Thus, they lost their carnivorous and omnivorous traits from their ancestors. and the growth of agriculture. During the mid and late Pleistocene era, there were environmental changes. The Qingling Mountains, were pandas inhabited, became frozen, destroying their habitat. Over the past thousand of years, human civilization has caused pandas to live in high mountains. To this day, their unique diet, isolated habitat, and reproductive constraints have closely classified them as extinct. The evolution pandas, human civilization, and environmental changes have caused their population to drop. Until recently, it has been announced Giant Pandas are no longer endangered,

The red pandas half to deal with habitat loss every day that's why they're going extinct. There's one other way why they're going extinct and that's poaching. They have animal predators to like leopards and clouded leopards. Wild dogs are a problem for them too. The red panda is used to being in the cold mountains but now because of climate change there dying from the

To first understand this animal, it is known as the Panda, one must discuss its location. The first thing to mention is their early location. “Evidence of giant pandas in the Qinling mountains was first obtained in the mid 1800s by the Russian explorers Berezovski and Potanin, who brought back several skins purchased from native hunters, one of which found its way to the British Museum of Natural History in London”. (Cotton). The next thing to mention is their recent location. “The giant pandas has never, as far as is known, succeeded in colonising the western area of the red panda’s range, and is now restricted to the mountains along the eastern edge of Tibetan Plateau”. (Cotton). The last thing to mention is how the chinese

The designation of critical habitat, or other explicit habitat protection, is one of the protections sometimes given to listed species at both the state and federal level. This requirements is based on an understanding that habitat is crucial to species survival and recovery, and the habitat most important to a species should be identified at the time the species is listed under the federal ESA. Critical habitat designation does not affect private landowners unless they are applying for a federal permit of funding, but it requires that government agency review the impact of their actions to insure that this habitat adversely affected. Only sex states have provision requiring critical habitat designation, and it is rarely used.

According to “animalfactguide.com”, they say that one reason why pandas are endangered is because of their habitat. Habitat destruction

I’m researching the Red Panda because it is my favorite animal. When people say Red Panda they may think that it’s a real panda. The Red Panda is actually not a Panda. The Red Panda is because of where it lives, how it survives, and how it has been impacted by humans.

Poaching is not the only factor that contributes to the decline of the pandas; habitat loss and fragmentation, and birth deaths also play a vital role. The practice of poaching has become increasingly uncommon due to strict laws enforced by China and patrolling of the areas (3, pg 7; 2, pg 4). When a person was caught killing a panda, they received the death penalty. That was until 1997, when Chinese government revised the punishment to twenty years of imprisonment (2, pg 4). Unlike poaching, habitat loss continues to pose a threat on the pandas. After the population boom in China in 1949, the panda species have endured many stresses on their environment, as more people accumulate on their land, pandas are forced to higher and more confined areas (2, pg 4). The fragmentation of their land makes it hard for pandas to migrate to new grounds when food sources are depleted and pose a risk for inbreeding (3, pg 1). In the wild, females may have one or two cubs at a time; however, since the newborn pandas are completely helpless, they require the mother panda’s full attention and care. The mother is only capable of raising one cub at a time, so in the wild, the mother has to abandon the other cub, who dies shortly after birth, in order to ensure the survival of her other

Giant pandas are among the rarest mammals in the world. There are probably less than 1,000 left in the wild. Although adult giant pandas have few natural enemies, the young are sometimes preyed upon by leopards. Habitat encroachment and destruction are the greatest threats to the continued existence of the giant panda. This is mainly because of the demand for land and natural resources by China's 1 billion inhabitants. To offset this situation, the Chinese government has set aside 11 nature preserves where bamboo flourishes and giant pandas are known to live.