Giant panda  (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

The historic range of the panda encompassed much of eastern and southern China, reaching into northern Vietnam and Myanmar (4). Today, the range is restricted to 6 separate mountain ranges in western China, on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, in the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan (4).

Formerly these pandas were found in hilly ravines at lower elevations, but populations have been forced into the mountains and they can now be found in temperate montane forest at 1,200 to 3,400 metres, where there is an abundance of bamboo (4).