me---a story of a very poor panda
how delicious the bamboo is! let me eat more, hmm, good! hello everybody ! i’m a panda, a very lovely animal and many people love me. and i’m sure you must be a fan of me, aren’t you? but i’m in danger now, and i’m sure you will help me too, am i right? let me tell you the story about me: i was born in a forest in the southwest of china. and i like eating bamboo very much, of course all of my family members like eating bamboo. and my brother---a panda was born on the same day just like me are die when he just was born two hours. oh my poor brothers! and then my family members and i are not very lucky, the area of bamboo is becoming smaller and smaller, so we don’t have enough food to eat and the human are very terrible, their farms and villages take many places and then we don’t have many places to live in. but we can do nothing to help us. but i think you can. try your best to tell people to protect us or after a few years they can’t see any panda on the earth!
animals need protecting
animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. hundreds more are on the danger list today. about 170 kinds in the united states aloneare considered in danger.
why should people care? because we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more.animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. they are more than just a source of food. every animal has its place in the balance of nature. destroying one kind of animal can create many problems. for example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers' stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. why? because hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.
luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. and they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. quite a few countries have passed laws. these laws forbid the killing of any animal or planton the danger list. slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.
once there was a famous masician in our country. his name was gongsun yi. he liked to play the lute very much. one day he saw a cow eating grass. he was very happy and began to play the lute to the cow. the music