But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is now restricted to around 20 isolated patches of bamboo forest in six mountain ranges in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu ...

China currently has about 1,000 giant pandas in the wild, most of them living on the mountains around the Sichuan Basin ... research on how to manipulate bamboo to be sturdier and faster to ...

It was on a subsequent business trip to China seeking cleaning supplies ... it is something everyone needs. The bamboo farms in Sichuan that provide the fibre are not clear-cut and the harvested ...

And here in the Wanglang reserve, on the bamboo forested ... biggest home of China's pandas. But, says Jiang, "geographically, it is very important. We are part of a corridor of panda habitat that ...