After a significant increase in recent years, China now boasts a network of 67 panda reserves, which safeguard more than 66% of the giant pandas in the wild and almost 54% of their existing habitat.

Giant pandas are black and white bears that live in temperate-zone bamboo forests in central China. Among the best recognized but rarest animals in the world, they have come to symbolize ...

The giant panda has evolved to live on a diet of bamboo Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, according to satellite data. The forests where the panda ...

Take a look behind the scenes as animal care teams provide an endless bamboo buffet to the Zoo's new giant pandas.

Bao Li (whose name means “treasure” and “energetic”) and Qing Bao (“green treasure”) are the next step in a continuum of ...

Home to more than 12,000 species of plants and 1122 species of vertebrates, the area includes more than half of the habitat for the Earth’s wild giant panda population, says study lead author Weihua .

Currently, the Chinese government in conjunction with the WWF are doing all that is possible to save the giant panda. This includes further research on how to manipulate bamboo to be sturdier and ...

That adorability is one reason the giant panda is an international ... such as livestock grazing in panda habitat. “Horses and pandas both like gentle slopes and bamboo forests; horses also ...

Indeed, the 2008 animated blockbuster Kung Fu Panda tells the story of Po, a panda who is an apprentice noodle-maker and kung-fu fanatic, and whose greatest enemy is Tai Lung: a fierce kung-fu ...

However, the plot thickens as the red panda was first discovered in 1825, while the giant panda was discovered much later in 1869, acquiring the name ‘panda’ as both species share similar feeding ...

The story of the giant panda is one of resilience and proof that conservation can bring back threatened species from the ...