Essays on Giant Panda

The majority of scientists are in agreement that global warming is occurring and is caused by human activities over the last two hundred years or so. Global warming is caused by the build up in the atmosphere of gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and others which have been created by the burning of fossil fuels in order to produce electricity, and for use in industries and motor vehicles. Another contribution to global is the removal of vast areas of natural forest from the planet. . The majority of carbon dioxide exchange between the atmosphere and the earth ...

Introduction

The giant panda is a member of the bear family living in mountainous terrain in China. An article entitled “Giant panda fact file” (n.d.) contains much useful information about the animal, including its Latin name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Adults are mostly solitary in habit, meeting mainly in the mating season, which is between March and May, when they utter loud calls to each other through the mountainous forests. Unlike some other members of the bear family, giant pandas do not hibernate; they tend to relocate to lower altitudes to avoid the worst of the winter weather, and may also move around ...

Justifications, Problems, and Solutions

The broad goal of conservation biology is, according to experts from the American Museum of Natural History, is “to conserve global biodiversity” (Calcagonotto, Egan, and Lehn 2001). Small population conservation biology is a facet of conservation biology that deals with the more specific issue of trying to preserve endangered species that have extremely low populations, and the efforts to conserve these species can be very expensive. The question of whether or not this type of conservation biology is ethically justifiable is one that can be explored by examining the approach of small population conservation biology, examining a test case from the ...