And it is here that WWF has focussed its giant panda conservation work, supporting the Chinese government's efforts to conserve the species. Since habitat loss is the most serious threat to the panda, ...

To learn more about the post-earthquake impact of the giant panda habitat in Sichuan, WWF launched a field survey ... was very excited that her school library received a number of new books donated by ...

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 ...

Scientists suggest we might conserve pandas by converting their skin cells into stem cells—and eventually reproductive cells ...

Not all are. Adequate habitat for the bears’ release is also a concern. Since the 1970s the Chinese have gone from 12 panda reserves to 67, making the bears, on paper, the most protected animal ...

People once thought the red panda was related to bears or raccoons ... which helps keep them warm in the mountainous habitat. A red panda at Smithsonian's National Zoo. Katie Fancher, Smithsonian ...

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists desperate to save the species from extinction. The iconic bears, native to ... whose new book “Panda Love” documents the country ...

Laurie Thompson, Marty Dearie and Mariel Lally January was a month full of firsts for giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji. The growing bear played with ... let fans into his habitat during his first ...

Home to more than 12,000 species of plants and 1,122 species of vertebrates, the area includes more than half of the habitat for the Earth's wild giant panda population, said study lead author ...

Their departure will leave Washington without at least one of the rotund, cuddly-looking bears for only the second ... endowing the zoo’s panda habitat. He thinks an agreement for new pandas ...