14. China’s giant pandas
have long been
threated with
extinction. Now they
are facing a new
threat –
STARVATION.
Their favourite food,
arrow bamboo, is
beginning to die off.
15. It is part of cycle that happens every sixty years and the new
crop will take around ten years to mature. Last time the bamboo
bloomed was in the 1980s and then around two hundred and
fifty giant pandas died of starvation
16. The giant panda is
an endangered
species, threatened
by continued
habitat loss and
by a very low
birthrate, both in
the wild and in
captivity.