Slide deck for the IPCC Briefing to Latvian Parliamentarians
Animals in danger
1. THE GIANT PANDA
The giant panda has a black-and-white
coat. Its body looks like a bear. It has
black fur on its ears, eye patches, legs,
arms and shoulders.
2. THE GIANT PANDA
The rest of the animal’s coat is white. The
giant panda’s thick, wooly coat keeps it
warm in the cool forests where it lives.
3. THE GIANT PANDA
The giant panda lives on the
mountains of central China.
4. THE GIANT PANDA
The pandas eat mainly bamboo.
Sometimes they eat leaves, honey,
eggs, oranges, bananas or even fish and
meat.
5. THE GIANT PANDA
Pandas are
mammals. They
have babies, they
don’t lay eggs.
Pandas can have
1-2 babies a year
but after that
they need to wait
2 years before
they can have
anymore.
6. THE GIANT PANDA
• A female giant panda can have 6 babies in
her lifetime. Baby pandas stay with their
mothers until they are 5 months old.
7. THE GIANT PANDA
The panda is an endangered species. There
are about 260 pandas living in zoos. Wild
pandas are about 2,000 in the world.
8. THE GIANT PANDA
One of the
reasons
pandas are
in danger is
because
people cut
down the
forests
where they
live.
9. THE GIANT PANDA
Another reason is that they are
being poached and killed by traps
which are placed for other animals.
10. THE GIANT PANDA
Farmers want more and more land to grow
different products, so they cut down lots of
bamboo. Pandas are also killed for their fur
to make rugs.
11. THE GIANT PANDA
Other ways to save pandas are:
# Join organisations who help
endangered animals.
# Protect the pandas’ habitats.
# Help the giant pandas in zoos
have more babies.
# Let pandas free in the wild.
12. THE PENGUIN
Penguins live mainly in Antarctica. They are
black and white. They are birds that cannot fly.
Their wings have changed into flippers.
13. THE PENGUIN
Penguins spend half of their lives on land and
half in the oceans. They are excellent swimmers.
They are also great divers! Penguins come out of
the water about every minute for air, but can
hold their breath for up to 20 minutes.
14. THE PENGUIN
There are 17 kinds of penguins. The largest
penguin is the Emperor penguin. It is about 1
metre tall and weighs 35 kilos.
15. THE PENGUIN
Penguins eat fish, squid and other forms
of sealife they find in the water.
16. THE PENGUIN
Penguins live together in groups to stay safe,
keep warm and protect their babies. There are
hundreds of male penguins in a group.
17. THE PENGUIN
Female penguins lay
one or two eggs at a
time. Then, they go
to find food and
leaving the male to
watch the nest.
When the female
comes back (in about
two weeks), the male
goes for food,
leaving the female
with the egg.
18. THE PENGUIN
When the chick (baby penguin) gets out of
the egg, it starts calling so that its parents
learn to recognise its voice.
19. THE PENGUIN
When the chick is
strong enough,
both parents go to
the ocean. The
chicks stay with
the other penguins.
When the parents
return with food
they recognise
their chick by its
voice.
20. THE PENGUIN
The main dangers for penguins are:
Oil spills: Oil covers penguins’ feathers as they
swim and the oil can poison them.
Tourists: People sometimes disturb the
penguins. They can even break their eggs by
accident.