As part of celebrations for its 50th anniversary, the World Wildlife Fund is displaying 1,600 panda bear sculptures outside a major railway station in Berlin, Germany.
The 1,600 styrofoam bears outside Hauptbahnhof station represent the shrinking number of pandas that remain in the wild.
According to the WWF, pandas are the rarest member of the bear family.
They predominantly live in bamboo forests in the mountains of western China, and despite them having few animal predators, the species is under threat from human poaching as well as bamboo deforestation, which restricts their access to food and mating partners.
“The Chinese government has established more than 50 panda reserves, but only around 61% of the country’s panda population is protected by these reserves,” the WWF reports.
The organisation’s panda conservation programs and initiatives include:
patrolling against poaching in the bamboo forests where the animals live
increasing the number of protected areas for pandas
creating panda breeding programs, and
ongoing research and monitoring
The panda has been featured on the WWF logo since the organisation was founded in 1961.
source: http://birdeemag.com/1600-pandas-at-a-train-station/
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