Panda – a precious and endangered animal
Dear Pandas:
I was amazed once more by your knowledge and care for the environment and people in need. I am so proud of you and it is such an honor to read your wonderful comments with good advices and suggestions on how to save water and help people. Thanks to all of you for participating in the conversation and hopefully we have taught something new to the other little pandas.
Today, I would like to write about something dear to all of our hearts – Pandas! Do you know that Panda is one of most endangered animal on the planet? The giant panda is the rarest member of the bear family and is one of the world’s most threatened animals. It is has been a symbol for one of the most recognized organization in the world for animal welfare – The World Wide Life since its founding in 1961 (see: http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/giantpanda/panda.html) There are only about 2,500 of them living in the nature and a few lives in zoos such as the San Diego Zoo. (http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/)
Why are there only so few Pandas left? You probably could have guessed from the previous articles that the greatest threat to nature is ….. ourselves! Yes, yes, it is sad, but unfortunately human being is guilty of most problems. The main reason for the Panda extinction is loss of habitat due to human activities such as road buildings that lead to deforestation. In addition, can you imagine there are also people that will hunt the panda for its furs? Sadly, it happens. Panda is very special also because it is very difficult to have baby pandas due to its natural low fertility but high mortality rate. So every baby panda conceived and born are like miracles.
Just look at this picture of a baby panda. It is about a week old. Most pandas only weigh about 75-150 grams when they are born. Of course, we all know with time, the weight goes up to much higher. 
Although panda is a prey animal but it feeds itself almost exclusively with bamboo shoots. Can you guess how much bamboo shoots it need to eat on a given day? For adult pandas, they can eat up to 40 pounds of bamboo! Can you imagine such a number? I’d probably burst or turned into a balloon and flew above the clouds. The reason why pandas need to eat that much bamboo is because the bamboo shoots do not contain too many nutrients so they had to eat a lot to grow. And to be able to eat that much in a day, panda spends a minimum of 12 hours a day eating! So chances are when you spot a panda in the wild or at the zoo, it will be chewing on a bamboo shoot. 
Now that you have learned a bit more about pandas, I want to hear your thoughts about panda or any other endangered species that you care deeply about. Maybe you can suggest ways that we can live our lives without harming the nature and the animals that we share the planet with.
I look forward to read your comments. 
Love and peace,
Your Kamaria
July 29th, 2010 at 8:12 am
awww its so cute x
July 29th, 2010 at 10:25 am
I think this panda is really small for how big a real panda is because well its just like the one on Toy story called squishy
July 29th, 2010 at 10:26 am
its good that panfu is try to make a differents. Good for you
July 29th, 2010 at 11:31 am
I love little pandababies and im going to a zoo tomorrow and i hope they take care of some sweet and healthy pandas! We should not be mean and cruel toany species at all!! I really hope that all of the pandas on Panfu are nice to each other!
Love Pandalover
July 29th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Dear Kamaria,
I think we should have more awareness of the threat to Pandas. There should be posters and if they HAVE to build roads, either build it AROUND the forest or if they have to build roads and things THROUGH it, plant more bamboo and trees afterwards. Personally, I don’t think Panda skin would look nice on clothes, furniture, ect. but I think there should be laws and fines for doing so. Maybe there should be hidden cameras, but maybe some of the animals will eat/harm them, and they wouldn’t be very well.
Thank you for your time Kamaria,
Yours Sincerely,
Your Concerned Panda Friend,
Tiredtedd. x
July 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I just want to hold a baby panda and cuddle with it . Its the CUTEST panda ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
we need to tell the humans how we feel about pandas and bears
we shold discuss with them and pursuade them to take moreee care of bears and pandas
July 29th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I care mostly about the tiger, i was born in that chinese year and i love all big cats. I don’t see the point in poaching tigers because the chinese medicine it is sold for doesn’t work, i found that out on a website i didn’t actually try it!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
awaw i want one they are so smal
July 29th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
me and my friend are both on panfu and sometimes in school we talk about whats going on in panfu.when i read this i called her and she thought the same thing as me.its not fair!i dont like the way people hunt for pandas and polar bears and tigers,just for their furs.its an outrage.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
aaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww there so small i want one to keep
July 30th, 2010 at 6:11 am
it is so cute now i want one i am kind to all me and my buddy she wants to start to get ppl to stop and i said i do to so we have got 20 ppl say that they want to help us so we have made signs and lots of ppl said they will help i hope you will to thank you all if you say yes so say yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love love1111
July 30th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Thats Sooooooo Cute !!!!!!!! Pandas Are So Cute All Animals Are!!!! Its Really Bad How Hunters Hunt For Bears And Pandas And Other Animals Thats Just A BIG EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND MEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 30th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
we should grow more bamboo so they can eat! p.s that baby panda is soooooo cute!:D
July 31st, 2010 at 5:16 am
Aww its so cute i cant see why people still hunt for them just for their furs it cruel and their innocent.
July 31st, 2010 at 2:32 pm
aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww its adoribul .its small like a baby . i love animals and pandas
July 31st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
i hope pandas dont get extinced!!!!!their my fave animal!!!!!!!!that picture is so cute id love that as a pet!!!!!!!hope they”ll stay in the worldXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxp.s hooe their in the zoo!!!!!LOLxXxXxXxXxXxX
July 31st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Thx for showing the pic kamaria panda is my fav animal they r sooooo cute
July 31st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww its so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 1st, 2010 at 9:47 am
cool
August 1st, 2010 at 1:36 pm
that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
We should lead a protest to stop killing animals!All types of animals are endangered cause of US!My friend is an animal saver and she sees animals everywhere!I wish i could be the queen and save pandas
August 5th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
I absolutley love pandas! i know more about them then all of u : P
August 5th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
holy banaanas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that panda is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute (:
August 6th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
that panda was so cute i wish i hade a baby panda.
August 6th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
i love playing on panfu
August 6th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
it looks so cute when can i get one lol
August 6th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
i love the lake and new friends you should come to my tree some time well bye max and ella
August 8th, 2010 at 2:48 am
awwwwwwwwwwwwww
August 10th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
that panda is sooo cute bless wonder were its mum is properley still in the jungle or zoo
wonder if we could have baby pandas for the peoplel who pretend to have one they are
so cute when was it born? i apsolutly love pandas there my fav animal i think i dont rnow
yet maybe are they your fav animal
August 15th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
it si so cute
August 18th, 2010 at 11:52 am
i saw its bum hehehehe not realy endangered means in trouble and there gonna dye out i wish rats would dye out they stink and give plague peee uuuu
August 18th, 2010 at 11:53 am
it looks nothing like a baby panda though
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
thats a cute panda
September 1st, 2010 at 11:56 am
ho ar you.
September 18th, 2010 at 8:46 am
i t s byotefirl
October 2nd, 2010 at 2:42 am
omg that little baby panda is a bout to make me cry it looks so cute and cudaly
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:08 am
its realy cute and i went to the zoo and it look like the one that i saw its soooooooooooo cute
but it dose not look like a panda???? at the zoo they where feeding it and i got to hold the bottle omg !!!!!!!!! lov your number one fan tia!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
no way u got to hold the bottle and feed it that is so cute i wish i was there but i think that they should just have polerbears and pandas off touch with the humans because they might be not more and we want to keep the cute animals i have cats and i can not imagin the cat might be the lost of the cute little felers
October 10th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
uppp er ur that is sure a panda
November 4th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww its SO cute!
November 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
i see peaple with tiny pandas on the game how do they get them?
November 10th, 2010 at 4:59 am
hi i think panda’s are so cute big or small and i think it would be amazing if people put more thought to looking after panda’s instead of hunting them
December 5th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
im crying cause its so preicious its soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute and tiny!
December 12th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
aw it’s so small & cute
January 2nd, 2011 at 7:05 pm
sweet
January 26th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww look at the little panda they are so cute. People we need to protect these animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :] from cupcakelover53
February 9th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Koala population is critical. People take their food (eucaliptus, is that how its spelled?) and turn them into chinese
folk medicine and forest fire is a big problem too because koalas are slow and sleep all day so its a hard chance
of survival. Maybe at least 25% of gold-panda membership could help donate to people who help these species
survive. Koalas are my fav animal and there so cute so they make me think WHY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Thanks for reading!
February 14th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
i think the baby panda is really cute .There are other endangered animals like the tiger i hate people who hunt down animals it’s just wrong.
February 20th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
he is cute the baby panda
February 22nd, 2011 at 10:21 am
I think that panda is soo cute I could just take it out of the pic and snuggle it!
March 3rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Another one of the most endangered animals in fact it is the most endanged because it cant breed.
the Pinta Island Tortoise lives in the Galapogous islands and there is only one in the world!
so pandas arnt the most endangered afetr all but tthey are so cute!
March 21st, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Oh that is SO cute!! Panfuluver1 There is only one in the world?? They might become extinct, so we have to do SOMETHING!! Oh come on we CAN do it! Go pandas save endangered species and by the way I hate my own clothes because its made of ANIMAL SKIN OH NO!!
Xxxxx your panda friend, rose5690
March 21st, 2011 at 7:26 pm
YO POLAR BEARS AWSOME ANIMALS AND THEYRE ENDANGERED THE ICE IS MELTTING PPL ADOPT THEM SAVE THE POLAR BEARS AND AMMA LEAPORDS
‘-’ AMMA LEAPORDS ROCK AND POLAR BEARS AWSOME (my gf way better though)
April 4th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
The baby panda is soooooooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from Sally614 P.S My real panda name is joy but my mom made it Sally614 and i did the coment too late :0
May 7th, 2011 at 12:01 am
the baby panda is so cute!!!!. i whold save animals if i could
love for all
pony03
July 7th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
I’m helping pandas (giant pandas to be specific) with my little sister. I’m trying to $250!
July 19th, 2011 at 8:09 am
awwwww its so cute and tiny
July 23rd, 2011 at 8:53 pm
this is a very great idea i would save the pandas if i could.What billions of people dont realise is that all our pandas are in danger and their population numbers are decreasing every seconds and more and more cruel hearts are destroying their habitats so that makes their lives even harder and that doesnt just go for pandas, that goes for all animals of the world endangered or not because if we do not make a difference then sooner or later all animals ,except us of course, will be wiped out and only one word would sum up everything would happen…disaster.
PLEASE REMEMBER THIS POST AND SPREAD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS OR FAMILY BECAUSE EVEN THE TINIEST DONATION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND SAVE THE ANIMALS!(ESPESCIALLY OUR SWEET FURRY BAMBOO EATING FRIENDS!)
August 13th, 2011 at 3:47 am
To kamaria.
Someday, I will make a poster that says this
Plese Save The Panda. It Is Very Spesle to Panfu!
August 13th, 2011 at 3:53 am
I say ” never support activities that damige nature and endangured speace’s homes”
December 3rd, 2011 at 7:22 pm
i love baby panda, i think they’re really cute…but sadly, i haven’t seen one in person. i really wish i could. Viva for all the Pandas!!!
January 13th, 2012 at 9:07 am
awwwwwwwww sooooo cute I am very sad that they are in extinction
January 14th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Dear Karmaria,
You forgot that most pandas has one baby at a time. it is rare for a panda to have 2 babies. if a mom panda has another panda, the older baby panda wont get care for anymore and gets kicked out by mom panda.also pandas live alone unless a female has a baby(babies) 1-3.
April 30th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
As u all know not only panda bears r endangered. there r other species too. but as panfu is a panda chat game lets concentrate on pandas for now. people hunt pandas for their fur to make expensive coats and accessories etc. these harmful animals live in China, Asia and eat bamboo. people should be more unselfish and think of the nature.
August 5th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
awwww so cute i wish i could have a pet panda
August 16th, 2012 at 8:56 am
Awwww!So cute!