Satellites help track endangered red pandas

17 Jun 2020

Satellites help track endangered red pandas

Satellites help track endangered red pandasDo you know about red pandas?

They are cute, bear-like animals found only in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. Despite the name, they are not related to giant pandas.  However, red pandas also eat a lot of bamboos (like giant pandas do).

Red pandas are endangered (very less in number) today due to illegal hunting and loss of forests. There are only a few thousand of them left now. So, keeping a check on their numbers is important.  This will help make sure that they don't decrease.

In order to do this, scientists have fitted GPS collars on 10 red pandas in the forests near Mount Kangchenjunga, Nepal.

These GPS collars are then tracked using satellites. The pandas are also being photographed with secret cameras in the forests.

All this helps us understand the habits of the red pandas, which scientists can use to save them from extinction (dying out).

The 10 pandas have been named by local people as Paaru, Dolma, Chintapu, Mechhachha, Bhumo, Senehang, Ngima, Brian, Ninamma and Praladdevi.

Here is a lovely video on red pandas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu59cLEA4HQ

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