The panda is one of the ____ (animal) most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas ____ (live) in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying ____ they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.

    Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They ____ (main) live on bamboo, and each panda ____ (need) to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming ____ (small) for many different reasons, ____ pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don't have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.

    Our government is working hard ____ (save) pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo ____ (grow) better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born ____ the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.