Kim Bui's List: GMO

• old-growth, or natural, forests
• bamboo availability was the number one factor
• prefer undisturbed forests over immature forests that are regrowing after logging and other habitats
• old-growth forests have more easily foraged bamboo and provide the nooks and crannies pandas use as maternal dens

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• pair of breeding pandas
• 550 and 3,400 yards
• 7,400 acres
• confined to above 1,500 yards
• Bamboo die-off
• every 15-120 years

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• 12 hours
• each day
• 84  pounds
• In the wild, mother pandas will care for only one of the   young
• bloom and die at the same time

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• 23 percent of the pandas' habitat in the study area was destroyed
• more than half of the habitat for the Earth's wild giant panda population
• fragmented into smaller, disconnected patches

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• 2700 - 3900 m
• does not hibernate but descends to lower elevations in the winter
• southern and eastern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam
• China's Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan Provinces

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