For over 50 years, the giant panda has been the globe's most beloved conservation icon.
Knowing that the panda is now a step further from extinction is an exciting moment for
everyone committed to conserving the world's wildlife and their habitats.
- Marco Lambertini, WWF Director General
Welcome to Animal Facts.
In a welcome piece of good news for the world's threatened wildlife, the giant panda, as of
September 2016, has been downgraded from 'Endangered' to 'Vulnerable' on the global list of
species at risk of extinction, demonstrating how an integrated approach can help save Earth's
vanishing biodiversity.
Today, we discuss this great news.
Let's get started.
10.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the positive change
to the giant panda's official status in the Red List of Threatened Species, pointing
to a 17% rise in the population in the decade up to 2014, when a nationwide census found
1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China.
9.
WWF's panda logo was designed by the organisation's founding chairman, the naturalist and painter
Sir Peter Scott in 1961.
Twenty years later, World Wildlife Fund became the first international organisation to work
in China.
Ever since, WWF has been working with the government on initiatives to save giant pandas
and their habitat, including helping to establish an integrated network of giant panda reserves
and wildlife corridors to connect isolated panda populations.
8.
There are about 20 different species of bamboo that pandas will eat.
However bamboo is so nutritionally poor that the pandas have to consume up to 45 pounds
each day, which can take up to 16 hours.
7.
The Chinese once hunted Panda believing that its pelt provided magical protection against
evil spirits.
Today, thanks to conservation efforts, hunting Panda carries strict penalties in China.
6.
The main cause of the panda's decline is the erosion of its habitat, due to the clearing
of areas for crop cultivation.
Another reason is the natural die-back of the local variety of bamboo.
The panda will not migrate to feed in new areas, because it is hemmed in by human settlements,
and so it frequently starves to death.
5.
Giant pandas are only about the size of a stick of butter at birth, and they're hairless
and helpless.
The panda mother gives great care to her tiny cub, usually cradling it in one paw and holding
it close to her chest.
For several days after birth, the mother does not leave the den, not even to eat or drink!
4.
Are Pandas Bears?
There was some confusion about this for a while.
Scientists put living things in groups to help us organize what we know about the millions
of species on Earth.
Not everything fits neatly into the groups scientists have created.
For a long time, scientists weren't sure if giant pandas were bears or perhaps more
closely related to raccoons.
Now we know that giant pandas are indeed members of the bear family.
Scientists have used DNA to find out that the giant panda is more closely related to
the other bears than to the raccoons.
Giant pandas are in the family Ursidae with the seven other bear species.
3.
Panda's pooh points in their direction of travel, so they can be easily tracked in the
wild.
Unfortunately, historically this led to them being more endangered, but now it aids researchers.
2.
Fossils of pandas were found that were between 1 and 2 million years old.
Pandas were once widely distributed across the whole of China.
Now they only live in the wild in remote areas of China's Tibetan foothills.
1.
It's not all good news.
While the panda's status has improved, other species are under increasing threat, including
the Eastern gorilla that is now listed as critically endangered, just one step away
from extinction, due primarily to poaching.
Well, there you have it.
Some great news for one of the most widely recognizable and iconic species to grace this
planet.
And for this, we are truly grateful and hopeful for future efforts.
Did we miss any facts?
Let the community know in the comments below.
Are there any endangered species that you'd like us
to cover?
Reach out.
We're all ears.
And as always, catch ya next time.
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Compassion is Action - Duration: 5:29.
[chanting]
[Tibetan chanting]
The problems that we see are outer
but when we look deeper then the problem is the inner environment.
It's interconnected.
In Buddhism the essence is compassion and interdependence.
Interdependence is the wisdom, the feeling that the environment itself is interconnected.
The compassion is a combination of the feeling and the action.
No matter if you are Buddhist or not, you feel the problem.
And to solve the problem is everybody's responsibility.
I notice that the nuns internalize environmental messages on simplicity and sustainability
and that they gather together to examine themselves first.
The solutions that they come up with are innovative and interesting but also very personal.
The most compelling thing about their work is that they
really approach it from the lens of compassion.
and when they talk about the environment
it's with such a sense of empathy for the environment, for the Earth
and for the different systems that exist in the Earth.
As a Buddhist you are thinking about the wellbeing of others.
I give my kidney to save one person.
If I have wisdom then I will prefer to take care of the river.
If I take care of just the river, I can take care of almost the whole world.
When it comes to footprints, they have one of the lowest footprints in the world
and there is something very strange about asking Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns
to step forward to lead environmental change
maybe precisely because of that.
There is something about their message that cuts through all the blustering and obstacles
that people tend to put up when they are asked to change their behavior
whether it's climate change or environmental protection
or planting forests.
There is something very compelling about Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns
when they make their message known.
We are the nuns from Tilokpur.
We have a message for you.
Listen to the water.
I am here for the wellbeing of all life.
Listen to the forests.
Care for it like your own child.
We need to work together.
Listen to the changes affecting us all.
Compassion is action!
[singing]
I think having Buddhist monks and nuns in particular lead this type of work—
visibly go out to the community and do cleanups, install solar, and start planting organic vegetables.
These are all signals that are going out into the community and saying,
"we are acting and we are asking you to act."
And ultimately what this is doing is creating a movement across the Himalayas,
all the way from Ladakh, all the way to Bhutan
that we see Buddhists communities starting to respond.
[singing]
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(yawns)
(toothpaste squirts)
(snores)
(toys squeaking)
(knobs squeaking)
(funky music)
♪ ♪
(knob squeaking)
(record scratches)
(teeth chattering)
(knob squeaking)
AH.
(groaning)
(knobs squeaking)
(water running)
(objects clattering)
(monkey chattering)
(hair dryer whirring)
(object whirring)
(knobs squeaking)
AAH!
(groaning)
UNH!
AAH!
(whistling)
AAH!
(groans)
(crying)
AAH!
AAH!
(birds chirping)
(air hissing)
(groans)
(chuckles evilly)
(laughing evilly)
(refrigerator whirring)
(ice clinking)
(toys laughing)
(laughter in the distance)
(beep)
(wind whooshing)
(laughing)
(jazzy Pink Panther theme)
♪ ♪
(evil laughter)
(groans)
(beep)
(knob squeaking)
(vacuum whirring)
(shuddering)
AH, AH, AH, AH-CHOO!
(screaming)
(laughs evilly)
(chuckles evilly)
(laughing evilly)
AH-AH!
AH-OOH-OOH!
(groans)
(screaming)
(chokes)
(spits, coughs)
(chuckles evilly)
(beeping)
(whimpers)
UH!
OOH!
AAH!
(teeth chattering)
(pipes creaking)
(cowering)
(groans)
(jazzy Pink Panther theme)
♪ ♪
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