Can you take a colorful photo for me?

If you say nothing is impossible, you would be wrong when a panda asks you to take a colorful photo for him.

Roll down to learn more about this lovely and amazing animal!

• Facts

This peaceful creature with a distinctive black and white coat is adored by the world and considered a national treasure in China.

Pandas live mainly in bamboo forests high in the mountains of western China, where they subsist almost entirely on bamboo.

Despite their exalted status and relative lack of natural predators, pandas are still at risk. Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild.

➤➤➤Status🔽Vulnerable

➤➤➤Population🔽1864 in the wild

➤➤➤Scientific Name🔽Ailuropoda melanoleuca

➤➤➤Height🔽Adults can grow to more than four feet

➤➤➤Weight🔽220-330 pounds

➤➤➤Habitats🔽Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of Southwest China

• Why they matter
  

Pandas play a crucial role in the bamboo forests where they roam by spreading seeds and facilitating growth of vegetation.

In the Yangtze Basin where pandas live, the forests are home to a stunning array of wildlife such as dwarf blue sheep, multicolored pheasants and other endangered species, including the golden monkey, takin and crested ibis.

Pandas also bring huge economic benefits to local communities through ecotourism.

• Threats

➤➤➤Habitat Loss

Roads and railroads of panda’s primary habitat are increasingly fragmenting the forest, which isolates panda populations and prevents mating.

Forest destruction also reduces pandas’ access to the bamboo they need to survive. 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.

➤➤➤Hunting

Hunting remains an ever-present threat. Poaching the animals for their fur has declined due to strict laws and greater public awareness of the panda’s protected status. But hunters seeking other animals in panda habitats continue to kill pandas accidentally.

• Where to see pandas in the US?

You can see me at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.; 

Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia; 

the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California; 

and the Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee.

Are you ready to take a photo for me?