Where are giant pandas found?
Answer… Cool mountain forests, rich in bamboo vegetation, are home for the giant panda. It likes old-growth forests with nourishing undergrowth bamboo on a gentle slope, where streams are not too far away. Fossil evidence shows that 0.7 million years ago, the giant panda was widely distributed in Myanmar (Burma), northern Vietnam, and much of eastern and southern China, as far north as Beijing. But today they are confined to temperate forests scattered across 6 mountain ranges in southwestern China: Minshan, Qinling, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, and Xiaoxiangling. Some of the panda reserves include: 1. Pingwu County, located in the centre of the Minshan panda population in Sichuan; 2. Wolong Reserve in the Qionglai mountains of the Sichuan Province; 3. The Tangjiahe Reserve in the Min mountains of the Sichuan Province; 4.The Foping Reserve and Chongqing Forest Bureau area of the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province; 5.Laoxiancheng reserve (established in 1993) in the Shaanxi Pr
