Lately, a few Red Pandas have been found sick and close to death at really low altitudes, in busy cities. Such strange behaviour is difficult to understand. Why are they heading down the mountain? What is happening up there? Wanna hear my guess? Climate Change...
It is easy to see the impacts of climate change in Nepal. Glaciers recede before your very eyes, really terrifying stuff. I watched with horror as whole chunks of ice rumbled down mountain sides in Pokhara.
This is the Red Pandas plea, their final attempt to grasp to life.
Im heading back to Nepal at the end of the year to start doing research on how climate change may/is effecting these little guys.
My study will look at their main food source, bamboo, and how its growth habit changes at different altitudes. Researchers have begun work with the Giant Panda in regards to Climate Change. The Giant Panda relies on only a single species of bamboo, and it has been predicted that if the bamboo cant grow/ disperse to higher altitudes, 80-100% of it will become extinct by the end of the 21st century, taking the Giant Panda with it.
The Red Panda eats 4 species of bamboo, and their fate rests entirely on whether this bamboo thrives at many altitudes and temperatures, because if not, it may already be too late for them.
As a volunteer I have very limited funds, and have set up a fund-rasing website, asking people to help me complete this vital research. If I don't get some financial help, this study may not be able to go ahead.
Please donate HERE. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for listening!
Also I just want to point out, I HATE asking for money. So i'm very sorry for this!
P.S. I have a few really exciting ventures coming up in regards to this project (other fund-raising ideas) and to the red pandas in general!
It is easy to see the impacts of climate change in Nepal. Glaciers recede before your very eyes, really terrifying stuff. I watched with horror as whole chunks of ice rumbled down mountain sides in Pokhara.
This is the Red Pandas plea, their final attempt to grasp to life.
Im heading back to Nepal at the end of the year to start doing research on how climate change may/is effecting these little guys.
My study will look at their main food source, bamboo, and how its growth habit changes at different altitudes. Researchers have begun work with the Giant Panda in regards to Climate Change. The Giant Panda relies on only a single species of bamboo, and it has been predicted that if the bamboo cant grow/ disperse to higher altitudes, 80-100% of it will become extinct by the end of the 21st century, taking the Giant Panda with it.
The Red Panda eats 4 species of bamboo, and their fate rests entirely on whether this bamboo thrives at many altitudes and temperatures, because if not, it may already be too late for them.
As a volunteer I have very limited funds, and have set up a fund-rasing website, asking people to help me complete this vital research. If I don't get some financial help, this study may not be able to go ahead.
Please donate HERE. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for listening!
Also I just want to point out, I HATE asking for money. So i'm very sorry for this!
P.S. I have a few really exciting ventures coming up in regards to this project (other fund-raising ideas) and to the red pandas in general!
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