Endemic to China, giant pandas are one of the world’s most endangered species. Nearly 1,900 pandas now live in the wild, mostly in the provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi in China, up from 1,100 in the 1980s. Check out these chubby bears that live leisurely at Dujiangyan base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) and Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
(Cover: A close-up of a giant panda. /CFP)
