To make things worse, the most badly affected bamboo forest areas, more than 300 hectares, bordered Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and were on the giant panda's migration route, says Li Qingbao, ...

Habitat loss and fragmentation are the most pressing threats to the giant panda. Large areas of natural forest have been cleared for agriculture, timber and fuel wood. Because of China’s dense human ...

While Chinese reforestation and forest protection efforts are working, the IUCN said, climate change remains a threat to more than one-third of the panda's bamboo habitat.

Cedar, left, and Spruce are two red panda brothers who will live at the Minnesota Zoo’s newest habitat, Red Panda Forest, which opens to the public on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The exhibit will ...

These animals used to live in lowland areas, however farming, forest clearing and other development have changed the habitat of giant pandas.

A more than $25 million renovation of the giant panda habitat and the popular public camera system will offer the bears more comfort and safety.

Panda fans, rejoice: San Diego Zoo’s Yuan Chuan and Xin Bao go on public view Thursday Visitors will be able to finally welcome the two new bears and see Panda Ridge, a habitat that’s four ...

In February 2001, a giant panda cub was seen limping out of the bamboo forest in Baoxing County in the city of Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Giant pandas must search for plentiful amounts of bamboo to survive in their native habitat. Chinese wildlife officials are working to establish forest corridors that will help wild panda ...

In 2016, the giant panda reached a milestone rarely achieved in species conservation: downlisting by the IUCN from Endangered to Vulnerable. However, studies of ecological and population genetic ...

Two Chinese giant pandas are now California residents as their enclosure at the San Diego Zoo opened to the public on Thursday in an international ceremony.