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Pandas
YOUR A DOP T ION UPDAT E
BEARING
FRUIT ALSO
INSIDE
PANDA-FRIENDLY
HOW A CRUCIAL ALLIANCE YOU SUPPORT COOK STOVES
IS HELPING TO PROTECT LIANGSHAN’S REGAINING HARMONY
WITH NATURE
GIANT PANDAS
PANDA S
YOUR FIELD
REPORT
COMPILED BY XU QIANG,
OF OUR GIANT PANDA
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PROGRAMME, WHICH YOUR TA SIC
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ADOPTION SUPPORTS
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herds his livestock
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THE ALLIANCE IN 2014 AND,
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THANKS TO YOU, WE CONTINUE
TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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DECADE OF HOPE
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You’re supporting an important alliance to help protect giant The alliance consists of 12 panda nature reserves which run on less fuel. You’re supporting this
pandas living outside China’s new national park from across Liangshan Landscape, including some important work, and you can read more on page 6.
MAIN & INSET LEFT© WANG YUE, INSET TOP CENTRE © WWF CHINA / XIANG DINGQIAN,
that neighbour each other. Alliance members work
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All the panda reserves in the alliance follow the At the alliance’s fourth annual conference last year,
he Giant Panda National Park will be home together to share wildlife monitoring information,
same monitoring standards, which makes the data we announced our new 10-year strategy to protect giant
to 70% of China’s wild panda population and conduct joint patrols and tackle threats such as
they collect easier to collate and analyse. Reserve pandas in Liangshan
80% of their habitat. However, some areas lie habitat loss and disturbance. They also promote
teams also carry out exchange visits to share
outside of park boundaries, including the Liangshan better understanding of why protecting giant
experiences and learn from each other. Alliance
T hanks to years of successful conservation work, wild panda
DID YOU
mountains in Sichuan province – the black-and- pandas is so vital.
members gather together every year for their numbers are starting to recover but, sadly, the bears remain at
white bears’ southernmost habitat.
PRODUCTIVE POO annual conference, sharing their findings and
KNOW?
risk. Unless they’re managed effectively, human activities such as
PANDA PARTNERSHIP These magnificent bears help keep their
discussing strategies to improve the way panda grazing livestock and collecting bamboo can disturb and degrade
habitats are managed. fragile panda habitats, and that’s where we’re focusing our efforts.
Around 124 giant pandas are estimated to live in mountain forest homes healthy by dispersing
these mountains, along with many remote rural AROUND ONE- seeds in their droppings, enabling bamboo INSET TOP RIGHT © JULIE SIMON
There are plans to expand the alliance and include We’ll be looking at ways to help communities find alternative,
communities. Poverty levels are high and, for now,
THIRD OF WILD to spread and thrive. Local people rely on the forest farms and community-protected areas
too. Currently, these areas aren’t under official
sustainable livelihoods, including beekeeping, which reduce their
the Chinese government is concentrating on tackling
this urgent problem. Meanwhile, the Protected
GIANT PANDAS forests too, for food, income, and fuel for cooking
protection, so being alliance members will give them
reliance on natural resources from the forests. We’ll also continue
AND NEARLY HALF
and heating. Through the alliance we help introducing fuel-efficient stoves and other measures that benefit
Areas Alliance of Liangshan Landscape is leading explain why it’s in people’s interests to carefully an extra level of support – making a huge difference people and pandas. We couldn’t do it without you, and I really
the way on panda conservation. We helped co-found THEIR HABITAT manage natural resources, to benefit them and to what they can achieve. We’re very proud of this hope you’ll keep protecting pandas through your adoption.
the alliance in 2014 and, thanks to you, we continue LIE OUTSIDE the wildlife they live alongside. We also offer amazing and growing panda protection network,
to provide training and technical support. PROTECTED AREAS alternatives such as energy-efficient stoves, and we’re really grateful to you for supporting it.
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PPAANNDDAASS
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HOW
YOU’RE HELPING
A short and interesting
video from our WWF colleagues
in China shows how fuel-efficient
cooking stoves are benefiting
people and pandas in Liangshan.
You can watch it now, at:
WWF.ORG.UK/
STOVES
RECIPES
We’re replacing
traditional open C
stoves (left) with
fuel-efficient
M
alternatives (right)
which require
FOR SUCCESS
less firewood and Y
reduce harmful
carbon emissions
CM
MY
CY
YOU’VE HELPED ENSURE MORE PEOPLE IN CMY
LIANGSHAN RECEIVE FUEL-EFFICIENT COOKING STOVES, K
REDUCING PRESSURE ON PANDA HABITATS
L
iangshan’s giant pandas share their smoke containing carbon dioxide and other
PANDA,
mountain home with some of China’s greenhouse gases into the atmosphere –
poorest rural communities, where many worsening the climate crisis. The smoke also fills
people earn as little as £400 per year. They’re people’s homes and lungs – putting them at risk PEOPLE AND
mainly small-scale farmers, who raise livestock of respiratory illnesses. Our replacement stoves PLANET-
FRIENDLY
and grow crops such as corn, buckwheat, potatoes are designed to burn more efficiently while using
and oats. Yet trying to grow anything at such high less firewood. They produce less smoke too,
altitudes is difficult. Instead, people rely on the cutting harmful carbon emissions and making Traditionally, cooking is
mountain forests for firewood, water, wild herbs people’s homes safer and healthier. done on an open fire or
and other resources, and let their livestock roam pit. The fuel-efficient
MAIN © ISTOCKPHOTOLP, INSETS © WANG YU
free to forage on forest plants. But their activities Last year alone, you helped fund 300 new cooking stoves you
stoves for people living in Liangshan’s support feature internal
can disturb and damage fragile panda habitats.
Meigu County, increasing the total number air circulation to reduce
Thankfully, adopters like you are funding practical
carbon emissions and
and sustainable solutions to tackle this problem, installed to 1,108. And the first batch of
maximise efficiency, saving
including fuel-efficient stoves. 500 stoves we installed in 2017 completed an estimated 50–70% in
the necessary tests to reach Gold Standard firewood use. They also
ALL-ROUND ASSET Certified Emission Reduction – verifying that have a chimney to extract
they’re cutting carbon while improving the smoke from the house.
Collecting firewood from the forest is
backbreaking work, and burning it releases lives of people and pandas. J
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RESTORING
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•
YOUR PANDAS ADOPTION UPDATE • ISSUE 21
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to safeguard pandas,
CHANGE COURSE. FROM EVERYDAY CHOICES ABOUT WHAT WE EAT OR you support our other
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HOW WE USE OUR MONEY, TO THE VERY BIG DECISIONS ABOUT HOW WE protect our beautiful
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planet and its wildlife.
Thank you.
BE AT THE HEART OF HUMANITY’S MISSION IN THE 21ST CENTURY”
SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, WWF AMBASSADOR
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