Conservationists are satellite tracking red pandas in the mountains of Nepal to find out more about the factors that are driving them towards extinction. The mammals are endangered, with numbers ...

The red panda lives in the mountainous forests of China, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar, where numbers are down to a few thousand individuals and decreasing every day. Two varieties have long ...

KATHMANDU, March 25 -- The Omuta City Zoo located in Fukuoka, Japan, has formalized its commitment to assist in the conservation of Nepal's red pandas. A memorandum of understanding (MoU ...

Red pandas live in high-altitude forests of Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. They are mainly arboreal species, often living close to water sources and in densely bamboo covered areas. In the ...

The Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire has shared cute pictures to celebrate International Red Panda Day on Saturday, ...

It’s estimated there are 10,000 to 2,500 Red Pandas in the wild in Nepal, which puts the species in the endangered to critically endangered category. Since the Red Panda Network was formed in ...

70% of red panda habitat lies outside of protected areas in Nepal and is fragmented into 400 small forest patches. Therefore, habitat is being fragmented by development projects like roads ...

The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums has shortlisted India Red Panda Conservation Breeding and Augmentation Programme, led by the Padmaja Naidu Himalay ...

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People once thought the red panda was related to bears or raccoons, but they are actually their own genus, Ailuridae. Within the genus, there are two species: fulgens fulgens and fulgens refulgens.

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sundar is his name; Khusi is hers. Matchmakers in New Zealand introduced them—in the red panda habitat of the ...