Rare Photos Of Wild Giant Pandas

/ Update from Pandas International

Baishuijiang Nature Reserve, the largest of China’s 55 panda nature reserves, has recently captured its first photos of wild pandas in over a decade. Two Giant Pandas were photographed by two sheltered camera traps, which are over one km apart from each other, said Liu Zhengxiang, director of the Gansu Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve in northwest China’s Gansu Province.

As wild Giant Pandas are generally reclusive, it’s difficult for biologists to take photographs of them. The 11 photos captured by these camera traps, combined with other signs of frequent panda activity in the area, have scientists taking further action: Gansu animal protection authorities are conducting a fourth field survey on the pandas. And zoologists will gather the animals’ DNA information on a large scale for the first time in order to establish an updated census of the Giant Panda populations in that area.