Pandas are now officially no longer an endangered species. Pandas have been downgraded from endangered to vulnerable with a 17% of increase in there population since 2004 to 2014. “The Giant Panda is now listed as Vulnerable, as its population has grown due to effective forest protection and reforestation,” The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced on Sunday.
In the wild, giant pandas are only found in remote, of mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.They dislike being around other pandas so much that they have a strengthen sense of smell that lets them know when another pandas are nearby so that it can be avoided. On average, a giant panda’s territory is about 1.9 square miles.
While pandas numbers are slowly increasing, the giant panda remains one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world. About 2,000 pandas are found in the wild. Pandas are now a vulnerable species; help and keep their population growing.