There isn’t any arguing that BPZOO’s purple panda household are amongst among the most charismatic, lovely, and beloved animals in New Bedford. They’re additionally working additional time as ambassadors to their species, inspiring the New Bedford group to care about purple panda conservation efforts within the wild. Due to this group dedication, BPZOO has once more been acknowledged as a Reforestation Sponsor of the Pink Panda Community for a latest $5,000 donation. This donation was made in honor of Worldwide Pink Panda Day on September 17, 2023. A day of celebration and training, impressed company donated a powerful $500 which contributed to the Zoo’s 2023 Reforestation Sponsorship.
Based in 2007, the Pink Panda Community has develop into a world chief in efforts to avoid wasting purple pandas and their habitat. They use an built-in, landscape-level method to conservation that’s constructed on the assist and participation of native communities. Their conservation applications lengthen to over a million acres of forest and 50% of Nepal’s purple panda vary. BPZOO has contributed $10,000 over the past two years serving to to guard 5 acres of vital purple panda habitat via buying, rising, and planting bushes. The sponsorship additionally helps the wage of 1 native land steward within the Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung (PIT) hall in jap Nepal a vital location for purple panda conservation that has been closely fragmented and degraded by deforestation in addition to gives various and sustainable revenue alternatives for native households. With BPZOO’s continued assist, the Pink Panda Community will have the ability to set up a bio-bridge that connects the fragmented patches of Group Forest on the Nepal aspect with the protected areas in India.
In 2019, Buttonwood Park Zoo unveiled its first ever purple panda habitat. Since then, because of the success of our Conservation Donation Kiosk and the dedication of our employees, now we have donated $17,000 to the Pink Panda Community. Resident purple pandas, Jacob, Marie, and their cubs, function ambassadors for his or her species and collectively we’ll proceed to encourage our company and work to guard wildlife and wild locations.
“BPZOO is proud to be a part of a group that shares our deep dedication to conservation,” stated Gary Lunsford, Director of Zoological Providers. “It’s via this shared worth that now we have once more been acknowledged as a conservation associate to important organizations just like the Pink Panda Community. I can not thank our group sufficient for his or her efforts in making this occur.”
About Pink Pandas
Pink pandas are an endangered species endemic to the Himalayas in Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma) and southern China. The worldwide purple panda inhabitants has declined by 50% in 20 years and there could also be as few as 2,500 remaining within the wild. Habitat loss and fragmentation is the first risk, and it’s compounded by growing human inhabitants, livestock herding, free-roaming canines and illness, poaching and unlawful commerce, logging, world local weather change, and insufficient enforcement of legal guidelines and laws. Whereas this sounds grim, there may be hope for this species because of the dedication of AZA accredited services and their associate conservation organizations.
