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ANIMALS

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DESCRIPTION

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GIANT PANDA

This peaceful creature with a distinctive black and white coat is adored by the
world and considered a national treasure in China. The bear also has a special
significance for WWF. The panda has been WWF's logo since our founding in 1961.
The rarest member of the bear family, pandas live mainly in bamboo forests
high in the mountains of western China, where they subsist almost entirely on
bamboo. They must eat from 26 to 84 pounds of it every day, a formidable task for
which they use their enlarged wrist bones that function as opposable thumbs.
Newborn pandas are about the size of a stick of butterabout 1/900th the size of its
motherbut can grow to up to 330 pounds as adults. These bears are excellent
tree-climbers despite their bulk.
Hunting remains an ever-present threat. Poaching the animals for their fur
has declined due to strict laws and greater public awareness of the pandas
protected status. But hunters seeking other animals in panda habitats continue to
kill pandas accidentally. Chinas Yangtze Basin region, which holds the pandas
primary habitat, is the geographic and economic heart of this booming country.
Roads and railroads are increasingly fragmenting the forest, which isolates panda
populations and prevents mating. Forest destruction also reduces pandas access to
the bamboo they need to survive. The Chinese government has established more
than 50 panda reserves, but only around 61% of the countrys panda population is
protected by these reserves.
We work towards and advocate for increasing the area of panda habitat under
legal protection, creating green corridors to link isolated pandas, patrolling against
poaching, illegal logging, and encroachment, building local capacities for nature
reserve management and continued research and monitoring.

ASIAN ELEPHANT
Elephants are an important cultural icon in Asia (Eastern Himalayas, Greater
Mekong). According to Indian mythology, the gods (deva) and the demons (asura)
churned the oceans in a search for the elixir of life so that they would become
immortal. As they did so, nine jewels surfaced, one of which was the elephant. In
Hinduism, the powerful deity honored before all sacred rituals is the elephantheaded Lord Ganesha, who is also called the Remover of Obstacles.
Asian elephants are extremely sociable, forming groups of six to seven
related females that are led by the oldest female, the matriarch. Like African
elephants, these groups occasionally join others to form herds, although these
associations are relatively transient.
More than two thirds of an elephants day may be spent feeding on grasses,
but large amounts of tree bark, roots, leaves and small stems are also eaten.
Cultivated crops such as bananas, rice and sugarcane are favorite foods. Elephants
are always close to a source of fresh water because they need to drink at least once
a day.
Even where suitable habitat exists, poaching remains a threat to elephants in
many areas. Although most of this ivory comes from poaching of African elephants,
Asian elephants are also illegally hunted for their ivory, as well as for their skin. In
some countries, political unrest is disrupting antipoaching activities. The loss of
tuskers also reduces the probability that these longer-living lone males will mate
and exchange genes with females of different sub-populations. The capture of wild
elephants for domestic use has become a threat to some wild populations, seriously
reducing some numbers. The main threat facing Indian elephants, like all Asian
elephants are loss of habitat, which then results in human-elephant conflict. In
response to high incidents of elephant and tiger poaching in central Sumatra, WWF
and its local partners have coordinated wildlife patrol units that conduct
antipoaching patrols, confiscate snares and other means of trapping animals,
educate local people on the laws in place concerning poaching, and help authorities
apprehend criminals. WWF and its partners restore degraded biological corridors so
that elephants can access their migratory routes without disturbing human
habitations. The long-term goal is to reconnect 12 protected areas and encourage
community-based action to mitigate human-elephant conflict.

SUMATRAN RHINOS
Sumatran rhinos are the smallest of the living rhinoceroses and the only
Asian rhino with two horns. They are covered with long hair and are more closely
related to the extinct woolly rhinos than any of the other rhino species alive today.
Calves are born with a dense covering that turns reddish brown in young adults and
becomes sparse, bristly and almost black in older animals. Sumatran rhinos
compete with the Javan rhino for the unenviable title of most threatened rhino
species. While surviving in greater numbers than the Javan rhino, Sumatran rhinos
are more threatened by poaching. There is no indication that the population is
stable and just two captive females have reproduced in the last 15 years.
The Sumatran rhino once roamed as far away as the foothills of the Eastern
Himalayas in Bhutan and eastern India, through Myanmar, Thailand, possibly to
Vietnam and China, and south through the Malay Peninsula. Two different
subspecies, the western Sumatran and eastern Sumatran, cling for survival on the
islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Experts believe the third subspecies is probably
extinct.
Demand for rhino horn from prosperous Asian communities is escalating.
Poaching is a very real threat facing all populations of Sumatran rhino. Rising
demand from countries like Vietnam where rhino horn is believed to cure cancer has
seen a surge in poaching despite the efforts made by the traditional Chinese
medicine community to call on practitioners to stop using rhino parts and products.
Investigations by TRAFFIC, the worlds largest wildlife trade monitoring network, and
WWF reveal that use of rhino horn in traditional medicine still persists in many
countries. Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in Sumatra is thought to have one of
the largest populations of Sumatran rhinos, but it is losing forest cover due to
conversion for coffee and rice by illegal settlers. In Bukit Barisan Selatan National
Park, the critically endangered population of 6080 Sumatran rhinos is threatened
by the conversion of forest to cash crops on both the eastern and western sides of
the islands central mountain range. No single Sumatran rhino population is
estimated to have more than 75 individuals, making them extremely vulnerable to
extinction due to natural catastrophes, diseases, and inbreeding. Together we run
rhino monitoring units to prevent poaching. WWF also works with local landholders,
agri-businesses, and the government to stop the conversion of more than 7,722
square miles of forest to oil palm and timber plantations between Kinabatangan and
Sebuku Sembakung. The destruction of this forest would likely lead to poaching of
the remaining Sumatran rhinos in the area.

BLUE WHALE
The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, weighing as much as 200
tons (approximately 33 elephants). The blue whale has a heart the size of a
Volkswagen Beetle. Its stomach can hold one ton of krill and it needs to eat about
four tons of krill each day. They are the loudest animals on Earth and are even
louder than a jet engine. Their calls reach 188 decibels, while a jet reaches 140
decibels. Their low frequency whistle can be heard for hundreds of miles and is
probably used to attract other blue whales. They can be found in Southern
Chile, Gulf of California and Coral Triangle.
Like other large whales, blue whales are threatened by environmental change
including habitat loss and toxics. Blue whales can also be harmed by ship strikes
and by becoming entangled in fishing gear. Although commercial whaling no longer
represents a threat, climate change and its impact on krill (shrimp-like crustaceans),
blue whales' major prey, makes this cetacean particularly vulnerable.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the body charged with
regulating whaling and addressing the vast number of other threats to whales,
dolphins and porpoises in our oceans such as shipping, climate change, and
bycatch. WWF works to make the IWC more effective in reducing all these threats to
whales. WWF is using satellite tags to see what specific routes are used by the
whales and which areas are used the most often. This information will help inform
decisions about protected areas, to prevent interactions between whales and
salmon farms or wild-caught fisheries.

AMUR TIGER
Amur tigers were once found throughout the Russian Far East, northern
China, and the Korean peninsula. By the 1940s, hunting had driven the Amur tiger
to the brink of extinctionwith no more than 40 individuals remaining in the
wild. The subspecies was saved when Russia became the first country in the world
to grant the tiger full protection.
By the 1980s, the Amur tiger population had increased to around 500.
Although poaching increased after the collapse of the Soviet Union, continued
conservation and antipoaching efforts by many partnersincluding WWFhave
helped keep the population stable at around 450 individuals. The Amur tigers
habitat is now restricted to the Sikhote-Alin range in the Primorski and Khabarovski
provinces of the Russian Far East, and to small pockets in the border areas of China
and possibly North Korea. The high latitude means long winters where the sun does
not rise far above the horizon.
Amur tigers have the largest home range of any tiger subspecies because low
prey densities means they have to search over large areas to find food. They
represent the largest unfragmented tiger population in the world.
The most immediate threat to the survival of Amur tigers is poaching to
supply demand for tiger parts on the black market. Experts say a new breed of
poacher stalks the tigers of the Russian Far East; they are better-armed, more
organized and faster than their predecessors and often have international links. In
2010, suspected members of a Chinese poaching gang were captured by the
Russian authorities after sneaking into a tiger sanctuary near the border. Tiger
forests are at risk from logging, conversion to agriculture, urban expansion, road
construction, mining, fires, and inadequate law enforcement. Illegal logging is
widespread throughout the Russian Far East, which has major impacts because
Korean pine and Mongolian oak provide critical food for the tigers prey during the
snow season. When these trees are illegally logged, the prey populations decrease
and negatively impact tigers.

WWF supports monitoring efforts across the Amur in both Russia and China.
In November 2011, a wild Amur tiger was captured on camera for the first time in
an area of northeast Chinaa key finding for the breeding and resettlement of the
tiger population in the region. WWF advocates for stronger logging and hunting laws
as well as their enforcement. We help train and equip staff in the protected areas,
support antipoaching brigades, and train customs agents across the region to
reduce illegal trade. WWF helped develop a Tiger Eco-Net, which is a network of
protected areas that will become a connected habitat for tigers. We worked to help
create a training and education center on the Russia-China border, where customs
officials learn how to effectively control the movement of natural resources across
the border.

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