mid-1970s A number of pandas in the northern part of their range ... off of bamboo, as happens periodically 1974-1977 Ministry of Forestry of China carried out a census, which estimated that only ...

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 Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu ...

China currently has about 1,000 giant pandas in the wild, most of them living on the ... This includes further research on how to manipulate bamboo to be sturdier and faster to recover after ...