Qizai, the world's only captive brown giant panda, attracts visitors at the Qinling Giant Panda Research Center in Xi 'an, ...

The extreme isolation of the Qinling Mountains, with elevation ranging from 1,300 to 3,000 meters (4,300–9,800 ft), secured this lineage from breeding with the more numerous giant pandas.

Most of the remaining wild pandas live in the Minshan and Qinling mountains. And it is here that WWF has focussed its giant panda conservation work, supporting the Chinese government's efforts to ...