RED PANDA

Scientific name and common name

• Ailurus fulgens
• Lesser Panda
• Red cat-bear

WHere does it live, range and habitats

• It lives in the Eastern Hialayas
• In Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar and Southern China
• Mostly found in forests and temperate forests

CHARACTERISTICS, size, diet and physical characteristcs

• Its 2 feet long
• Its an omnivore
• Its diet consists of bamboo, fruits, berries and small mammals

reproduction

• Red panda are solitary animal and are usually seeking for mates
• It takes about 112-158 days for female panda to give birth
• The panda usually delivers 4 pandas at a time

Current population size

• Red pandas population now is less than 10,000

Why are the endangered

• They are decreasing because of loss in habitat, fragmentation and poaching.

Whats being done to increase its population

• They're protected in all countries and no one can kill it
• They're habitat is being left alone for tem to reproduce more

source

• edgeofexistence.org

invasive species

Scientific name and common name

• phrgmites australis
• common reed

Scientific name and common name

• phrgmites australis
• common reed

How did they get to their new location

• It started spreading because of construction and shoreline development 

WHen did they first showed up in that area

• 20th century

What species do they compete with

• salt marsh
• and some vertebrates around it

What is their impact on the area and how are they harmful

• Blocks out native salt marsh and vegetation 
• Provide little to no food for the species around it
• creates dense jungle vegetation that not many animals can penetrate 

WHats being done to control this species

• removing fill material dumped on wetlnds
• treating and romoving phragmites from wetland

source

• http://www.invasiveplants.net/phragmites/