WildlifeVal+Schmidt

=__Chinese Wildlife! :D __= = =

=__What's Happening :3 __= At this very second hundreds of endangered species of plants and animals need help from being extinct in China, but at the same time their numbers are increasing and decreasing. For example; Xie Yan, which is the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild with about 10 that still live in the Southwestern Province of Yunnan, some 15 tigers in Tibet, and 20 tigers or so in Northwestern Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces. The Chinese Giant Panda is also in danger, it is one of the world's most popular animal species, too. The Chinese Giant Panda is only found in in Central & Western China, and only 1,000 to 2,000 are left in the wild. Causes of their decline include distruction of habitat and poaching. The Chinese Giant Panda is heavily dependant upon its main food source: the Bamboo Tree. Sadly, the Bamboo Tree is becoming rare in the Chinese Giant Panda's habitat. I an efffort to save this species the World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, and the Chinese Ministry of Forestry have developed a conservation managment plan outlining 14 new Chinese Giant Panda reserves connecting patches of the Panda's habitat. This species is also legally protected to prevent poaching.

=__Tree & Plant Life :b __= China's plant life in very plentiful; 30,000+ species of plants & trees live in China, that's 17,000 plants & trees for the U.S. and Canada combined, or one-eighth of the world's total of trees & plants! China has more than 7,000 species of woody plants, also including 2,800 odd-tree species, too. The Metasequoia Tree, Chinese Cypress, Cathay Silver Fir, China Fir, Golden Larch, Taiwan Fir, Fujian Cypress, Dove Tree, & the Eucommia and Camplotheca Acuminate Trees are ONLY found China, they exist nowhere else on Earth. The Metasequoia Tree, a tall species of Arbor, is considered to be one of the rarest and ancient tree species in the world. The Golden Larch, one of only five species of rare garden trees in the world, grows in the mountainous areas in the Yangtze River Valley. Its coin-shaped leaves on short branches are green in spring and summer, turning yellow and pale orange in autumn. China is home to more than 2,000 species of edible plants and over 3,000 species of medical plants. Ginseng from the Chinghai Mountains, Safflowers from Tibet, Chinese Wolfberry from Ningxia, and Notoginseng from Yunnan and Huizhou are particularly well-known Chinese herbal medicines. China has a wide variety of flowering plants, including the world-renowned Peony Rose that is indigenous to China and considered one of the country's national flowers. = =  Wildlife of China Wildlife is very important to the study of China. Without wildlife how would people get food, water, and resources? How would people get medicine? And most importantly, how else could we survive without wildlife? That’s one problem, because right now there might be people in China poaching endangered species and knocking down forests. There are many species of animals in China; most of the populations of animals in China are bird species. There are 1,244 species of birds, 430 species of mammals, and 350 species of reptiles. Out of all the species in China there’s just over 100 endangered species, there may even be thousands endangered in the future. Luckily, most of the endangered species are very popular. For example; the Chinese Giant Panda is one of the world’s most popular animal species, and because they’re popular they are the national symbol of the World Wildlife Fund, or WWF. Although there are 574 wildlife conservations in China, habitat is still being destroyed for farming and cities. There’s also a different way for clearing habitat: man-made fires. Man-made fires can be very dangerous for people and animals. Luckily for the wildlife that live way up in the Himalayan Mountains, the wildlife there has been barely visited. Many of the tree and plant life in China is all over the place, the Metasequoia Tree is one of the world’s most ancient and rarest tree, if you stood next to a full grown Metasequoia you would be dwarfed by its thickness & size. The Bonsai Tree is one China’s most well known odd-tree species, when you think of a Bonsai Tree you picture of the particularly small, crooked tree in a houseplant-sized pot, but the Bonsai Tree can grow quite large if you take care of it very well. Some Bonsai Trees can grow up to your knees, or even your waist. But they don’t grow as large as an original-sized tree. China contains as much as one-eighth of the world’s total of plants, 30,000+ of tree and plant species are found in China. The Peony Rose is now considered to be one of China’s national flowers. Fish is quite important to the study of China; most of China’s food contains fish from the sea. One of China’s well-known fish is the Koi Fish; there is approximately 22 species of Koi Fish in the entire world. The Doitsu, Bekko, Asagi, GinRin Kohaku, Kawarimono, Hikari, Goshiki, Kohaku, Kumonryu, Kujaku, Goromo, Gin Matsuba, Sanke, Orenji Ogon, Platinum Ogon, Ochiba, Tancho, Tancho Sanke, Showa, Shusui, Utsuri, and the Yamabuki Ogon are the 22 species of Koi Fish. Many other countless numbers of fish live all over in the rivers, lakes, streams, and seas of China. =__Chinese Wildlife Pictures (Plus Chinese Animal Zodiac) :) __=

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