The giant panda’s habitat was once spread throughout China, northern Vietnam and northern Myanmar. The approximately 1,860 remaining wild pandas are now found in just six mountain ranges in south-central China and divided into 33 isolated sub-populations.
Despite conservation success in recent years, pandas are still at risk. The threats they face include:
In some places, grazing livestock, harvesting bamboo and collecting medicinal herbs is still a threat to giant pandas.
Roads and railways cutting through the forest, isolate panda populations and prevents them from breeding.
Pandas that live in isolated mountains are especially vulnerable to warming that will shrink and fragment their habitat further.
And help people and nature adapt to the changes caused by climate change that are no longer avoidable.
WWF is working in key landscapes for the panda, to increase nature reserves, create green corridors to link isolated pandas and to prevent poaching and illegal logging.