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WWF conserves our planet, habitats, & species like the Panda
Solving the nature loss crisis. It’s not too late to save our living planet, but it will take some big changes. As well as making much greater efforts to conserve and restore nature, we need to tackle the causes of its destruction by transforming our food, energy and finance systems.
Giant panda | WWF
The giant panda is perhaps the most powerful symbol in the world when it comes to species conservation. Adored around the world, the distinctive black and white animal is a national treasure in China and has been the symbol of WWF since its formation in 1961.
About the panda - WWF
The panda is not special just because it is one of the most well known and charismatic animals on earth. It is also a very peculiar species, with many unique and remarkable characteristics.
Facts about the Giant Panda - WWF
Facts about WWF's most symbolic flagship species - the Giant Panda
WWF conserves our planet, habitats, & species like the Panda
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Giant panda | WWF
Giant panda numbers are slowly increasing, but the rare bear is not out of the woods yet. Traditional threats to pandas such as poaching appear to be declining, but large-scale disturbances including
Threats | WWF
The panda's mountainous forests continue to be degraded by people harvesting bamboo, gathering firewood and collecting medicinal herbs. The Minshan Mountains alone contain over 5,000 plant species: 75% of which are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Habitat: the land of the panda - WWF
The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is now restricted to around 20 isolated patches of bamboo forest in six mountain ranges in China's ...
History of the Giant Panda - WWF
History of the Giant Panda 11 March 1869 A hunter brings a panda skin to the French Jesuit, Armand David 13 April 1929 The Roosevelt brothers become the first foreigners to shoot a panda 1936 Ruth Harkness captures an infant panda and takes it to the USA, evoking universal sympathy for the plight of the panda and creating the ‘panda cult’ 1936-46 14 pandas are taken from China by foreigners
Factsheet: Giant Panda - WWF
Peaceful and mostly vegetarian, giant pandas have steadily lost their forest habitat to China's expanding human population. These striking animals are now confined to fragmented forest patches high in the mountains of southwestern China.