Giant Pandas
1. Giant pandas used to live in large areas of China, but they are now close to extinction. In the past, they were spread thoughtout the forests of southern and eastern China. Each panda needed a large area of forest--- and large amounts of bamboo---but there was enough forest and bamboo for tens of thousand of giant pandas. However, in the 20th century, people moved into the forests and cut drown the bamboo. By the 1990s, scientists estimated that there were only about 1,000 wild pandas left. Fortunately, the Chinese government decided to try to save them. It created several panda reserves, where the pandas their forests were protected. Thanks to these reserves, panda populations are slowly growing and there are now from 1,500 to 2,000 in the wild. Pandas are still on the international list of endangered species, but scientists now hope it may be possible to save them.
Topic : The history of wild pandas