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"Less than 1,000 Giant Pandas are left"
Nestled at 1,980 meters (6,500 feet) in the lush mountains of Sichuan, the Wolong Nature Reserve is one of the last habitats of the giant panda. The reserve covers an area of over 2,000 sq km and is also a refuge for other rare and endangered species including the snow leopard, golden monkey, golden langur, musk deer and red panda.
Sadly, the giant panda population is severely threatened and their numbers in the wild are estimated to have dropped below 1,000. Once these deceptively cuddly looking 200kg animals roamed the hills of all of China’s southern provinces but now their territory is extremely limited. Poaching is still a problem, but more significantly the advance of man into the hills and deforestation has restricted the pandas’ territory.
Pandas only eat a certain type of bamboo from a specific altitude and are notoriously unenthusiastic about breeding.
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