Do pandas not be caused by climate change?

Chinese researchers have just dismissed a research paper published in the British Daily Telegraph (November 4, 2012) saying that climate change will reduce the number of bamboos leading to extinction. of giant pandas in China in the future.

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According to Ouyang Zhiyun, director of the National Key Regional and Urban Ecology Laboratory, under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the bamboo species in this country still grows well in bear areas. living structure. In the same view, Mr. Zhang Hemin, head of the administration of the Wolong National Nature Reserve, which has the largest number of pandas in China, also emphasized that pandas eat a variety of bamboos, so even though the number the amount of one bamboo is reduced, they still have enough food.

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Moreover, according to these experts, the study in the Daily Telegraph focused on surveying 275 wild panda species in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province, accounting for 17% of China's wild pandas. Meanwhile, rising temperatures can make bamboo grow in higher areas of the Qinling Mountains, but the supply of panda food is not diminishing.

Currently, China has 37 types of bamboo grown at altitudes from 400 to 3,500m. If some types of bamboo die, then there will be other bamboos growing within 100 years. Particularly in the Qinling Mountains, there are at least three types of bamboos growing here: bamboo arrow, bamboo and dragon-head bamboo, occupying a total area of ​​250,000 hectares and growing at an altitude of 800m above sea level. As a result, global warming may have more or less affected growth, but will not reduce the number of bamboo species in Qinling Mountain.

Over the past two decades, from just under 100 pandas preserved in 1990, there have been 341 pandas raised worldwide. In China alone, there are 64 giant panda sanctuaries established in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, which can cover 60% of panda habitat and manage 70%. of about 1,600 wild wild raccoons.