Please may you give me a few more than obvious reasons, to do with adaptation, competition, evolution... that explain why Pandas are endangered.
I already know that lack of habitat is one of the reasons, but any more?
2007-01-21 09:49:33 · 4 answers · asked by ღ♥ღ latoya 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Pandas have been a target for poaching by locals since ancient times and by foreigners since they were introduced to the West. Starting in the 1930s, foreigners were unable to poach pandas in China because of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, but pandas remained a source of soft furs for the locals. The population boom in China after 1949 created stress on the pandas' habitat, and the subsequent famines led to the increased hunting of wildlife, including pandas. During the Cultural Revolution, all studies and conservation activities on the pandas were stopped. After the Chinese economic reform, demands for panda skin from Hong Kong and Japan led to illegal poaching for the black market, acts generally ignored by the local officials at the time.
2007-01-23 08:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by Amber D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hunting and destruction of habitat. These days they are completely protected in China but that doesn't stop poachers.
2007-01-21 10:39:32 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Panda fur or meat or any part of their body is worth a lot of money and people are killing them to earn money.
2007-01-21 10:12:31 · answer #3 · answered by gabi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-19 15:49:32 · answer #4 · answered by Lee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋