Bamboo Flooring: What about the pandas? Article
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A common concern amongst customers who are interested in bamboo flooring is the environmental effect and impact it may have on one of the most protected and loved species throughout the world, the Giant Panda.

Most people are aware that bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet, and due its low nutrients pandas may have to eat up to 13kg of bamboo in one day. Although pandas can eat any of the species of bamboo found, typically their diet consists mainly, if not only of Grass Bamboo. This bamboo grows very quickly and is very easy to find throughout forests in China. The diameter of the grass bamboo only grows up to be a few centimeters wide, so it is of a perfect edible size for pandas. However grass bamboo is a very soft and weak species of bamboo, and is too small to be used as bamboo flooring. It would produce a product that sufficiently lacks in strength and durability.

On the contrary the bamboo that is used for bamboo flooring is called Moso Bamboo. This bamboo is a giant among the bamboo species. Moso Bamboo is considered to be among the biggest, with stalks that can grow up to 20cm in diameter and 25m in length. This species of bamboo is incredibly strong, and is almost impossible for a panda to be able to bite through, chew and digest it. Its strength and size therefore make it perfect for the production of bamboo products and it is for this reason that it produces such strong and hard wearing bamboo flooring.

So, there is no reason to worry that bamboo flooring will affect and impact on the preservation of the Giant Panda. No pandas will go hungry because of the making of bamboo flooring!

Image courtesy of DanDiMuzio @ Flickr.

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