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While its numbers are slowly increasing, the giant panda remains one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world. Learn more about this amazing species! Habitat: where do they live? Diet: what do they eat? How long do pandas live? What do they look like? Why are they endangered? Why save the panda? What can I do to help? Love Giant Pandas?
The giant panda is the rarest member of the bear family and among the world’s most threatened animals. Learn about WWF's giant panda conservation efforts.
By far, the greatest threat facing wild pandas, and the biggest reason they are critically endangered today, is deforestation on the part of humans, which has led to permanent habitat loss in some areas. Wild pandas once roamed bamboo forests in China, Vietnam, Laos and Burma.
The panda had long been considered an endangered species by the IUCN, but the environmental organization changed the status of the panda to “ vulnerable” in 2016, because of China’s success in restoring bamboo forest habitat.
High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,500 of these...
How many pandas live in the wild? Habitat: where do they live? What do they eat? How big, tall, and heavy are they? Why save the panda? Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca); Sichuan Province, China.
Giant pandas are found only in China. They were once widespread in southern and eastern China and in neighbouring Myanmar and North Vietnam. Today there are confined to temperate forest scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China: Minshan, Qinling, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, and Xiaoxiangling.
Some threats to panda survival, such as poaching and illegal logging, have been significantly reduced. Community development projects to help people sustainably coexist with pandas have been very positive. In 2016, the panda’s status improved from “Endangered” to “Vulnerable” on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species.
Learn why these much-loved animals are endangered in their bamboo forest homes. Discover the panda’s surprising skill at swimming and climbing.
Panda habitat rivals the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem in the world. It's also vitally important for other threatened and endangered species, including golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red pandas and snow leopards. By protecting pandas in the wild we’re helping conserve the wider environment, for the people and wildlife that depend ...