{"id":6612,"date":"2011-02-18T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2011-02-18T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:00:16","slug":"panda-pandemonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/panda-pandemonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Panda pandemonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pandabamb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pandabamb-303x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"390\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s number one mascot the giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) are only found in the bamboo forests of south western China. &#8220;They occupy 6 small forest fragments in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi. (5,400 square miles).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cringel.com\/files\/images\/toy_finnair_panda_wearing_sunglasses_cringel.com.jpg\">panda<\/a> is well travelled in popular culture, as well as being a <a href=\"http:\/\/invision-images.com\/archive\/stories\/kunming\/INV-BRA-338\/preview\">local hero<\/a>. With the recent release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyongs.net\/kfpd.jpg\">Kung Fu Panda<\/a>, the panda Po looks set to win over another generation of children to panda love.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat fragmentation (by roads and railroads) and destruction and poaching (for their pelts) are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwala.com\/channels\/nature\/blog\/4680-10-Interesting-Facts-About-Panda-Bears\">major threats <\/a>to the Giant Panda, even though poachers and smugglers have received death penalties or long prison terms. Pandas are often injured in traps and snares set for other animals.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging threats to the panda populations are mining, hydropower and tourism. A giant panda may consume 26-83 pounds of bamboo a day to meet its energy requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s number one mascot the giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) are only found in the bamboo forests of south western China. &#8220;They occupy 6 small forest fragments in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi. (5,400 square miles).&#8221; The panda is well travelled in popular culture, as well as being a local hero. With the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,9,34,16,18,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}