🐼 Giant Panda

Ailuropoda melanoleuca · wildlife atlas entry

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A carnivore’s gut on a bamboo diet — it must eat 10+ hours daily. Downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable in 2016 after reserve expansion grew wild numbers by roughly 17% in a decade.

Giant Panda — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Joachim S. Müller, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Record card

Scientific name	Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Rank	species
Community observations	1,508 research-grade records on iNaturalist
Conservation status	VU — IUCN Red List assessment

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Mammalia › order Carnivora › family Ursidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-03-27 · Sichuan, CN
(c) Chris D Thomas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2011-10-31 · Hanzhong, CN-SA, CN
(c) roger_e_n_smith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2024-05-06 · Ya'an, CN-SC, CN
(c) photokeen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · cc-by-nc-nd

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-08-11 · Sichuan, CN
(c) icneo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2023-08-18 · Shaanxi, CN
(c) tianyang, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2024-10-04 · Hanzhong, CN-SA, CN
(c) 渔喵, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2024-05-05 · Sichuan, CN
(c) Royle Safaris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Giant Panda photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2024-03-28 · Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang, CN-SC, CN
(c) Royle Safaris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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A carnivore’s gut on a bamboo diet — it must eat 10+ hours daily. Downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable in 2016 after reserve expansion grew wild numbers by roughly 17% in a decade.

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