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Pandas Almost Gone?
Jessica Reigle
Jun. 26, 2006

 

Pandas are one of the most extinct creatures on the planet. The bamboo forests that house them might soon be empty.

High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world’s rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white relatives of bears survive in the wild.

Website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0011/pandas2.html


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