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'Protecting pandas in their natural habitat is indisputably the highest priority in the conservation of this severely endangered species. There may be as few as 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild today, scattered across six isolated mountain ranges in southwestern China. What will it take to save them?' -World Wildlife Fund 'Of course the panda is not safe. Nor will it ever be. It will always be threatened by something, attracting adversity as readily as adoration. We know what the panda needs: a forest with bamboo, a den for its young, and freedom from persecution.' -George B. Schaller

Dr. Lli Zhi, a professor of biology at Peking University, has been involved in panda conservation for nearly two decades. Between 1995 and 2000, she served as program manager of the giant panda conservation program for World Wildlife Fund's China office. She is currently a visiting scholar at Yale. Renowned field biologist Dr. George B. Schaller has led expeditions no many large mammal species in remote areas of the world since the 1950s, and conducted the first intensive panda study with Chinese scientists in the Wolong Reserve in the early 1980s. He is the author of over a dozen books on wildlife and conservation, including The Year of the Gorilla, Stone of Silence and The Last Panda. Dr. Pan Wenshi is a professor of zoology at Peking University. He is conducting the second intensive panda study in the Qinling Mountains, which began in 1985 and continues today.