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104<br />

TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project<br />

<strong>Final</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Appendix 5<br />

Geographic distribution<br />

RED PANDA AILURUS FULGENS<br />

Global: occurs from Himalayan India through Nepal to Bhutan, Myanmar,<br />

China, and Lao People's Democratic Republic<br />

China: from Yunnan northward through Sichuan to Gansu and Shaanxi<br />

Provinces<br />

Habitat and Ecology: occupies mixed broadleaf and conifer forests with abundant bamboo;<br />

forages almost entirely on bamboo, consuming different species<br />

seasonally.<br />

Biomes: Palearctic, Indo-malayan<br />

Habitats: forest – temperate/sub-tropical<br />

Conservation Status:<br />

Red List Category: Endangered (EN)<br />

shrubland – temperate/sub-tropical<br />

Red List Category Rationale: continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat; isolated<br />

small populations<br />

Population size & trend: population size unknown, trend presumed declining<br />

Protection Status<br />

IUCN Red List: Endangered (EN)<br />

CITES: Appendix II<br />

China Red Data Book: Endangered (EN)<br />

National protected species: I<br />

Shaanxi Province protection: �<br />

Threats & constraints: Primary threats are habitat loss/degradation due to farming, timber<br />

and other forest product harvest, infrastructure development,<br />

residential development, illegal hunting/trapping/snaring, accidental<br />

mortality, low population densities and fragmentation of populations<br />

by topography, roads, farms and other human activities.<br />

Research, survey and management recommendations<br />

Research & monitoring: Long-term field studies have not been conducted in China; basic<br />

biology is not well known and population sizes and distribution are not

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