2013년 4월 ZOOM IN EDITION - No More Bamboo?

Endangered giant pandas are facing a new threat: the loss of their food.

 

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Giant pandas are among the world's most endangered species.
To survive in the wild, they eat bamboo.
Some of the bears eat about 20 kilogramas of the plant a day! But pandas in eastern China's Qinling Mountains may soon have to find another source of food.
A new study in the science journal Nature Climate Change reports that warming temperatures may
cause the loss of most of the region's bamboo.
A team made up of people from Michigan State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied the effects of climate change on the spread and growth of the region's three main bamboo species. Bamboo is sensitive to temperature changes, says Jianguo Liu, one of the study's authors. " Even with a 2 Celsius increase in temperature, we found that 80% to 100% of bamboo would be gone by the end of the century, " Liu told TFK.

팬더곰이 멸종위기에 처해있습니다. 팬더곰은 야생세계에서 살아남기 위해서 대나무를 먹습니다.
어떤 곰들은 하루에 약 20 킬로그램을 먹습니다. 그러나 퀸링산에 사는 팬더는 곧 또 다른 먹이를 찾아야 할런지도 모릅니다. 자연 기후 변화 과학 전문지에서 새로운 연구가 보고되었는데요....
지구온난화가 대나무를 잃게 되는 원인일런지도 모른다고 합니다.

Protecting Pandas

The Qinling Mountains are home to about 270 pandas. That is about 17% of the pandas in the wild. In recent years, China has stepped up efforts to protect pandas from human activity.
But Liu says the country must do more, including increase the size of nature reserve areas that protect pandas.
Liu also wants China to reduce its use of fuels that release greenhouse gases. He says the rest
of the world should too. "The future of pandas," he says, "is in our hands." - By Kelli Plasket

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