Giant panda's home and environment
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- In the wild, the majority of pandas live in the Minshan Mountains. It's a group of mountains in central China right around the Tibetan Plateau. They're mostly found in the Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
- China made the area a nature reserve to try and help the pandas thrive there and repopulate . The panda usually lives in forestland that contains lots of broad-leafed plants, bamboo, and insects. They live in regions 5,000-10,000 feet.
- Biotic factors include bamboo, small rodents, musk deer fawns, fish. Abiotic factors include water availability and mountains.
- The reason that pandas died out in the south-eastern region of China is that temperatures started rising due to increasing pollution. Air pollution is the biggest factor in the decrease of giant pandas. It contaminates the air with too much carbon dioxide from factories. In this case, the bulk comes from China, mainly the North Eastern part.
- The massive amount of factories there create huge amounts of pollution, that travels over to the central part and affects the giant pandas.