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YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE

My pandasPandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

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togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

team effort

green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

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By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

YoU’Re MakINg a dIffeReNCe

pandas Field report

SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

Page 3

rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

Moon walk

some of the camera trap images, from left to right: black bear, golden pheasant, serow, and takin

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

pandas neWs

Page 4

daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

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7.00am-10.30am

10.30am-11.00am11.00am-12 noon12 noon-2.00pm2.00pm-8.00pm

8.00pm-2.00am

2.00am-7.00am

You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

WWf.oRg.hk• MY PaNdaS • ISSUe 6

© 1986 panda symbol WWF “WWF” is a WWF registered trademark

WWF-hong kong, no. 1 tramway path, central, hong kong.

tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

Welcome

species: giant panda

location: taibai county of shaanxi province, central china

project location

Qinling mountains

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Sustainability Climate Change Conservation

YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE

My pandas Pandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

Page 5

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togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

team effort

green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

Page 2

© is

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By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

YoU’Re MakINg a dIffeReNCe

pandas Field report

SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

Page 3

rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

Moon walk

some of the camera trap images, from left to right: black bear, golden pheasant, serow, and takin

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

pandas neWs

Page 4

daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

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Bear necessities

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adoPteR INSIght Pandas have broad, flat back teeth to help them chomp through twiggy bamboo shoots. They also have an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb, which they use to grip their food.

7.00am-10.30am

10.30am-11.00am11.00am-12 noon12 noon-2.00pm2.00pm-8.00pm

8.00pm-2.00am

2.00am-7.00am

You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

WWf.o

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© 1986 panda symbol WWF “WWF” is a WWF registered trademark

WWF-hong kong, no. 1 tramway path, central, hong kong.

tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

Welcome

species: giant panda

location: taibai county of shaanxi province, central china

project location

Qinling mountains

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ag

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New camera trap pictures from Qinling

Sustainability Climate Change Conservation

YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE

My pandas Pandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

Page 5

© g

ua

ny

ins

ha

n n

atu

re

re

se

rv

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my pandas neWs

togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

team effort

green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

Page 2

© is

toc

kp

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By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

YoU’Re MakINg a dIffeReNCe

pandas Field report

SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

Page 3

rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

Moon walk

some of the camera trap images, from left to right: black bear, golden pheasant, serow, and takin

© W

WF-c

hin

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© W

WF-c

hin

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

pandas neWs

Page 4

daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

© Fr

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Bear necessities

121110

74

58

21

6

93

adoPteR INSIght Pandas have broad, flat back teeth to help them chomp through twiggy bamboo shoots. They also have an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb, which they use to grip their food.

7.00am-10.30am

10.30am-11.00am11.00am-12 noon12 noon-2.00pm2.00pm-8.00pm

8.00pm-2.00am

2.00am-7.00am

You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

WWf.o

Rg.h

k•

MY Pa

NdaS

• ISS

Ue 6

© 1986 panda symbol WWF “WWF” is a WWF registered trademark

WWF-hong kong, no. 1 tramway path, central, hong kong.

tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

Welcome

species: giant panda

location: taibai county of shaanxi province, central china

project location

Qinling mountains

co

ve

r im

ag

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ce

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New camera trap pictures from Qinling

Sustainability Climate Change Conservation

YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE

My pandas Pandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

Page 5

© g

ua

ny

ins

ha

n n

atu

re

re

se

rv

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my pandas neWs

togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

team effort

green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

Page 2

© is

toc

kp

ho

to.c

om

By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

YoU’Re MakINg a dIffeReNCe

pandas Field report

SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

Page 3

rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

Moon walk

some of the camera trap images, from left to right: black bear, golden pheasant, serow, and takin

© W

WF-c

hin

a

© W

WF-c

hin

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

pandas neWs

Page 4

daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

© Fr

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lkin

g / W

WF

Bear necessities

121110

74

58

21

6

93

adoPteR INSIght Pandas have broad, flat back teeth to help them chomp through twiggy bamboo shoots. They also have an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb, which they use to grip their food.

7.00am-10.30am

10.30am-11.00am11.00am-12 noon12 noon-2.00pm2.00pm-8.00pm

8.00pm-2.00am

2.00am-7.00am

You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

WWf.o

Rg.h

k•

MY Pa

NdaS

• ISS

Ue 6

© 1986 panda symbol WWF “WWF” is a WWF registered trademark

WWF-hong kong, no. 1 tramway path, central, hong kong.

tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

Welcome

species: giant panda

location: taibai county of shaanxi province, central china

project location

Qinling mountains

co

ve

r im

ag

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New camera trap pictures from Qinling

SustainabilityClimate ChangeConservation

YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE

My pandasPandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

Page 5

© g

ua

ny

ins

ha

n n

atur

e r

es

er

ve

my pandas neWs

togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

team effort

green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

Page 2

© is

toc

kp

ho

to.c

om

By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

YoU’Re MakINg a dIffeReNCe

pandas Field report

SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

Page 3

rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

Moon walk

some of the camera trap images, from left to right: black bear, golden pheasant, serow, and takin

© W

WF-

ch

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© W

WF-

ch

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

pandas neWs

Page 4

daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

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You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

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tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

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My pandasPandas in numbers

1,600There are around 1,600 giant pandas in the wild

15-120 YeaRSBamboo naturally flowers and dies off every 15 to 120 years, depending on the type

50%Panda populations declined by around 50% between the early 1970s and late 1990s, due to habitat loss, poaching and bamboo die-back

70-80CMPandas measure around 70-80cm from their paws to their shoulders

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togetheR foR PaNdaSWe’re working with local people to help protect the forests pandas depend on

Donghe village lies inside Qinling wildlife corridor, and some of the villagers own parts of the forest there. If trees are cut down, or these areas become poor or patchy, it could affect the corridor. So it’s really important that the villagers keep their land green and healthy.

Thankfully, local people are as keen as we are to make sure the corridor thrives. With our support, six families are taking part in an exciting new scheme to look after their land together, and show others how successful this can be.

The families are growing bamboo and medicinal herbs to fill in gaps and replenish places where plants have been taken or are dying out. And they’re trying forest-friendly activities such as beekeeping, which can also bring in money.

aSk a PaNda exPeRt Your adoption helps support all kinds of work to protect pandas, and our experts would be delighted to answer some of the questions adopters have about these beautiful black-and-white bears. Please email your questions to adopt@wwf.org.hk. Just write ‘pandas – ask an expert’ in the subject line, and it’d be great if you could add your full name and age along with your question in the email. Unfortunately we can’t reply to each email individually, but we will feature answers to some of the most popular questions in future adoption updates.

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green fingersSo far, everything’s going really well in Donghe village, and this is just the starting point. We’re aiming to help more local people work together to protect land that’s important to them and to pandas. Your adoption is helping to fund this crucial work. Thank you.

some of the villagers check their bamboo plants

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By supporting our adoption programme, you’re playing an important role in helping to protect all pandas. Your adoption funds vital programmes such as monitoring the pandas, increasing and extending protected panda habitat, and reducing people’s impact on the natural environment. It also supports other essential conservation projects. Thank you.

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SURPRISe, SURPRISeIt’s midnight. It’s dark. And one of the world’s rarest animals has just walked past our camera traps!

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rare bear – the night-time camera trap image

This gorgeous adult panda is enjoying a peaceful moonlit stroll along a wildlife corridor next to Guanyinshan nature reserve. Funds from panda adoptions like yours have helped install 15 infrared camera traps in the corridor, and they’re really paying off.

Wildlife corridors help pandas and other wild animals move from place to place, to find food and breed.

It’s important to know what kinds of wild and wonderful creatures are using the corridors, so we can plan how to

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Imagine how thrilled we were to receive this amazing picture from the Qinling mountains, where the pandas live. There are only around 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild, so photos like this one are really exciting.

protect them. The cameras are helping us find out. As well as pandas, they’ve photographed lots of different animals, including black bears, takins, golden pheasants and serow – a goat-like mammal.

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daY IN the lIfeEver wondered how a giant panda spends its day? Wonder no more…According to research, giant pandas spend around 12 hours every day eating bamboo – that’s an incredible 4,380 hours of chomping each year! We wanted to know what else the black-and-white bears get up to, so we’ve created this fun, panda timetable. Why not compare it with your day?

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Bear necessities

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adoPteR INSIght Pandas have broad, flat back teeth to help them chomp through twiggy bamboo shoots. They also have an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb, which they use to grip their food.

7.00am-10.30am

10.30am-11.00am11.00am-12 noon12 noon-2.00pm2.00pm-8.00pm

8.00pm-2.00am

2.00am-7.00am

You’re probably getting up, having breakfast and heading to school or work, but pandas are already resting.

Nap over. Now it’s time to play. How about some tree climbing?

Was that a growl or a tummy rumble? It must be lunchtime.

All that munching is very tiring. Better have another snooze.

Hmmm, feeling peckish again. Just as well there’s lots of juicy bamboo nearby.

Time to settle down for the night. There’s a nice cosy spot underneath that tree I climbed earlier.

Rise and shine! Ready for a spot of breakfast – more bamboo anyone?

WWf.oRg.hk• MY PaNdaS • ISSUe 6

© 1986 panda symbol WWF “WWF” is a WWF registered trademark

WWF-hong kong, no. 1 tramway path, central, hong kong.

tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, email: adopt@wwf.org.hk

A very warm welcome to your first panda update of 2014, and thank you for helping to protect these amazing animals and their habitats through your adoption. We’d love to answer your questions about pandas, so please read on to find out how to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Edwards Conservation Director WWF-Hong Kong

Welcome

species: giant panda

location: taibai county of shaanxi province, central china

project location

Qinling mountains

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