Giant pandas are naturally solitary animals. They live in the remote bamboo forests of the high mountains of Sichuan, China.

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Today, an estimated 2,000 pandas are found in the wild. By the end of 2006, there were a reported 180 pandas in captivity on mainland China and about 20 in other countries.

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There are nearly 400 kinds of trees, including ginkgo, chinars, yulans and willows as well as many subspecies of bamboo that giant pandas love to eat.

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In the northern suburb of Chengdu, at the end of the Panda Road you arrive at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a world-renowned ecological conservation base that occupies 105 hectares and is embroidered with rolling green hills and a sparkling lake.

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The origin of the name "panda" is the Nepalese word "nigalya ponya", which has the meaning of "eater of bamboo".

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