Adopt a panda
It is estimated that as few as 1,864 pandas remain in the wild today. Help us halt the decline in panda numbers.
The giant panda habitat was once spread throughout China, northern Vietnam and northern Burma. But now the giant panda is found in the wild in just six isolated mountain ranges in Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan Provinces in south-central China.
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Your adoption really helps
Animal adoptions like yours give a huge boost to our work. They help fund projects to work with local communities to monitor giant panda movement and protect their habitat
Protect these incredible animals and receive:
Cuddly toy
An optional soft toy to love forever.
Regular updates
Both Wild World and My Pandas magazines will keep you up-to-date three times a year.
Fact pack
Packed with facts, bookmarks and stickers.
A wonderful gift
Give a gift that will help protect the future of giant pandas and their habitats
Three-quarters of all wild pandas now live in nature reserves – but despite this, they’re still endangered. Nearly half of all wild pandas were lost between the early 1970s and the late 1990s – mainly owing to habitat destruction and poaching.
Threats
Loss of food supplies
Their habitat is also degraded by people collecting medicinal herbs and harvesting bamboo – the pandas’ main source of food.
Habitat fragmentation
Roads and railways are increasingly cutting through the forest, which isolates panda populations and prevents them from breeding
Climate change
Pandas that live in isolated mountains are especially vulnerable to warming - as they already have small ranges that will shrink and fragment further
Poaching
Still killed for their skin
How we can help
In 1980 we became the first international organisation invited to work in China – and we’ve been working with the Chinese government to help protect giant pandas ever since. This includes helping to designate and set up protected areas to keep more panda habitat intact.
We also work with local communities to help them use their natural resources more sustainably, and encourage alternative livelihoods such as bee-keeping – things that don’t negatively impact on the panda’s habitat.
Your adoption and support will help us:
- create green corridors to link isolated pandas
- patrol against poaching, illegal logging and encroachment
- increase the area of habitat under legal protection
- build local capacities for nature reserve management
- fund our other essential work around the world
Pandas can swim and are excellent tree climbers.