Every year on March 16, we celebrate some of the cutest animals out there, pandas! There are two subspecies of panda: The Giant, black and white panda, and the ‘Qinling panda’ which is a smaller, brown subspecies of panda, discovered in 1985.
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According to the Society for Conservation Biology, preserving the natural habitat of the giant panda also helps 70% of the country’s forest birds, 70% of mammals and 31% of amphibians. Pandas play a crucial role in forests, and we can help them.
This holiday is meant to bring light to how vulnerable the panda numbers are in order to keep them from going extinct. According to National Holiday Today,