Climate change could starve the world’s giant pandas

Giant pandas, native to southern and central China, are finicky eaters. Given the bears’ predilection for a bamboo-centered diet, any change in the health of bamboo forests will have a big impact on their survival… Although there would be increases in bamboo at higher elevations for the panda, migrating up the mountains could be devastating to the species’ survival, as it would further isolate panda populations from one another… Ming Xu, the study’s lead author and associate professor of ecological modeling at Rutgers University, cited small populations- such as the 32 pandas in China’s Xiaoxiangling Mountains- as extremely susceptible to the effects of climate change.