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The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuanprovince, but also in

the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.


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As a result of farming,deforestation and other development, the
panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived. Giant panda
is a bear
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native to south central China.
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It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches
Alsinidendron viscosum (also called Climbing Alsinidendron) is a species of flowering plant in
the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae. It is endemic to lowland and montane moist forests in Hawaii. It is
threatened by habitat loss.
The Asiatic cheetah is a critically endangered
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subspecies of the cheetah found today only in Iran, with
some occasional sightings in Balochistan, Pakistan. It lives mainly in Iran's vast central desert in
fragmented pieces of remaining suitable habitat. Although once common, the animal was driven to
extinction in other parts of Southwest Asia from Arabia to India including Afghanistan. As of 2013, only 20
cheetahs were identified in Iran but some areas remained to be surveyed; the total population may be 50
to 100.
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Sterculia khasiana was a species of plant in the Sterculiaceae family. It was an endemic tree of the
Khasi Hills in Meghalaya in
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India. It became extinct due to habitat loss.
The baiji population declined drastically in decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the
river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late
2006 expedition failed to find any baiji in the river. Organizers declared the baiji functionally
extinct,
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which would make it the first known aquatic mammal species to become extinct since the
demise of the Japanese sea lion and the Caribbean monk sealin the 1950s

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