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Biodiversity in Malaysia

UCM 60203
Red Panda
Appearance

• Bear – like body


• Thick reddish-brown tails with six yellow rings
• Belly and limbs are black.
• Side of the head and above its eyes are white.
RED PANDA
Scientific Classification
• Behavior: Nocturnal and solitary animal except during
Kingdom: Animalia mating season.
Phylum: Chordata • Reproduction: Polygynandrous mating system, low birth
Class: Mammalia rate
Order: Carnivora • Diets: Omnivorous
Family: Ailuridae
Genus: Ailurus
Scientific Name: Ailurus fulgens
Common Name: Red Panda
Bamboo Insects Flowers Berries Eggs
Other Name(s): Lesser Panda, Fire Fox
RED PANDA

Tail: 28cm – 59cm Body Length: 40cm – 64cm

Typical Life Span: 8 – 10


years
Weight: Female (3kg – 6kg)
Male (3.7 – 6.2kg)
Maximum Life Span: 14 years
Distribution

• Found in Himalayan mountain between 2200m and


4800m
• Northern Burma, Nepal, sikkim region of India, and
the districts of western Sichuan and Yunnan in China

Habitat

• Temperate forest
• Rainy and mountainous areas
• Cannot live in lowlands (moderate heat may
dangerous to them)
THREATS
• Natural space and forests are destroyed by logging and

01 Deforestation
spread of agriculture.
• Loss of nesting tress and bamboo is causing decline in
red panda population.

• Poached for their fur, tail and skin in China and Myanmar.

02 Poaching
• Not aggressive animals and possess little in the way of
defense while being caught.
• Making them easy targets for determined hunters.

• Often killed when get caught in traps that meant for

03 Traps
others animals such as wild pigs and deer.
• Some manage to escape, but most get stuck and killed.
Comparison of Original Conditions
with the Current Conditions
Original Condition
• The red panda lives, eats, and raises its
babies in forest mountain terrains. Its habitat
range in many parts of Asia includes central
China, Nepal, Myanmar(Burma), and
Bhutan

• Red Panda lives in mountain forests with


a bamboo understory.
Current condition
• The red panda is now confined to parceled
territories that collectively are a fraction of its
original habitat. These isolated parcels interfere
with feeding, migration, and breeding activities.
• Reports of Red Panda poaching and smuggling
seem to be increasing

• Red pandas are loss and fragmentation of


habitat due to deforestation (and the
resulting loss of bamboo)
• The red panda is listed as endangered on
the International Union for Conservation of
Nature's (IUCN) Red List since 2008.
Population Statistic

• In 1994, it was estimated that the


population was at 13,000 to 16,000.
The red panda population is currently
estimated to be at 10,000 individuals.
• Over the last 18 years, which accounts
for 3 generations in the life of the red
panda, the population size of this
species has decreased by approximately
50%.
• According to a book by Angela R.
Glatston, the red panda population may
drop to 1,000-3,000 individuals in the
next twenty five years.
• Current Population Trend: Decreasing
• The male : female ratio = 48:52 This is a graph showing the projected red panda decline
from 2010 to 2026.
Conservation Status

The Red Panda Network saves wild The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is one of the
red pandas and preserve their habitat most known organizations around the world that
though the empowerment of local helps save and protect species that are or close to
communities by community-based becoming or are endangered. According to
research, education, and carbon WWF, the red panda is listed as an endangered
mitigation. species.
Conservation Status

Red Panda are protected under CITES The red panda is listed as endangered on the
Appendix I .Trade in specimens of International Union for Conservation of Nature's
these species is permitted only in (IUCN) Red List since 2008.The aim is to convey
the urgency of conservation issues to the public and
exceptional circumstances.
policy makers, as well as help the international
community to try to reduce species extinction.
Economic Importance of Red Panda

1. Body parts are source of valuable material


• Red panda skin :
• Hats
• worn by the bridegroom in a local Chinese
wedding.
• can be found in local villages and are used in
cultural ceremonies.
• Red panda tails:
• Dusters
2. Ecotourism
• Zoo (River Safari Singapore)
Ecological Importance of Red Panda

• Saving red pandas is ecological important because they


are an ambassador for clean air and water for

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approximately 500 million people. The forests where red
panda live are the lungs of South Asia and if these forests
Global warming are intact and function properly, just like a humans lungs,
then we can ensure a healthy life for the people, animals
and plants of South Asia.

• Protecting red panda is important to the preservation


of the World’s natural heritage and global biodiversity

02 Unique Biological
because it is the only species of its kind in the world.
It is unique in its behaviour and specialized in its
habitat requirements, as well as the fact that they
have no close living relatives. They are a living relict of
times past.
Example: Secondary Consumer
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Snow Leopard F
Primary Consumer
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Red panda
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Producers:
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Berries Bamboo Leaf
Conservation Efforts for
Red Panda
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The Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung (PIT) Corridor Project in Nepal

main components to this project:

• Community-based monitoring • Sustainable livelihood promotion


Local people were trained as Forest Guardians who Locals will be supported in cultivating high-value
conduct monthly monitoring medicinal plants, ecotourism, anti-poaching
network, etc

• Education and outreach • Species management plan


 Awareness-building workshops for local  Planting palatable plant species
stakeholders  Restoring degraded water resources in habitat
 Broadcast services educate the locals
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The Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung (PIT) Corridor Project in Nepal
02
Red panda has being listed as Endangered in the IUCN red list of
Threatened Species
02
main categories of conservation efforts:

• To protect against habitat loss • To reduce deaths of Red Panda


 Increase areas under protection  Establish anti-poaching units in community
 Making legal provision for the declaration of forests and protected areas
Community Conservation Areas  Engage army personnel in border bases to
keep their dogs in check
• To reduce habitat degradation
 Bamboo planting • To improve awareness
 Regulate tourism by the use of entry permits  Secure adequate funding
 Develop proper rubbish disposal systems  Improve conservation education in schools
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• Securing the red panda habitat

Reduce fuel wood consumptions by introducing bio-


briquettes (made from coal produced from agricultural waste
and mud) for cooking and heating purpose

• Garnering local support

 Community-based tourism enables the locals to earn additional


income from the tourists coming to the Community Conserved
Areas
WWF-India
• Mitigating threats to red panda populations

 Reduce forest dependence of local communities


 Collaborated with the Sikkim Anti-Rabies and Animal Health
(SARAH) to control the growing population of sterilize feral
dogs
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CITES Appendix-I Red Panda Breeding Program


All commercial trade in the species and its parts The first pair of Red Pandas arrived at
has been strictly prohibited. Taronga Zoo from Rotterdam Zoo, Holland,
in February 1977.
Exemptions are only granted for non- They had been successfully breeding Red
commercial purposes(e.g. exchanges of living Pandas ever since, as well as transferring
specimens for conservation breeding) pandas to other zoos in accordance with the
strategic plans of the breeding program.
Presented by:

Daphne Tan Li Wen 0329055


Karen Lim Shi Chee 0329431
Lau Wan Yee 0328947
Loh Wei Ting 0328314

School of Architecture, Building and Design


Bachelor of Quantity Surveying (Honours)
Thanks for the
time

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