Giant Panda Habitat

In the wild, giant pandas live in only a few mountain ranges in central and western China, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. Click here to see a MAP of Panda habitats.

The natural habitat of the giant panda is cool, wet, cloudy mountain forest land where bamboo grows. Giant pandas are found in mixed deciduous/evergreen temperate forests, between 3,000 and 10,500 feet in altitude (below the timberline). Pandas used to live at lower altitudes, but farming and land development have pushed the pandas high into the mountains. Also, because of habitat destruction, the pandas now live in a series of broken ranges. This has created six isolated populations that do not interbreed.

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