Panda Face helps sponsor Zhu Xiong, (pronounced Ju-Shong) meaning 'Bamboo Bear'

Zhu Xiong was only two years old when she was found in a small farming village in the Pingwu district of China. WWF staff moved her to the Wanglang reserve, the oldest and most remote reserve in China, where she joined 30 other pandas.

About giant pandas:

Peaceful and mostly vegetarian, the world's rarest bears - giant pandas - have steadily lost their forest habitat to China's expanding human population. These striking animals are now confined to fragmented forest patches high in the mountains of southwestern China. These same mountains form the watershed for China's Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, whose basins are the economic heart of China and home to over 500 million people.

By conserving the giant panda and its habitat, many other species will also be conserved - as will water resources that are essential for the future of hundreds of millions of people.

WWF has been active in giant panda conservation since 1980, and was the first international conservation organization to work in China at the Chinese government's invitation.

For more information on how you can help please click here

Adopt a Panda

It is estimated that as few as 1,600 pandas remain in the wild today. Help the WWF halt the decline in panda numbers...

How you would be helping the pandas

• Increasing the area of habitat under legal protection
• Creating green corridors to link isolated pandas
• Patrolling against poaching, illegal logging and encroachment
• Building local capacities for nature reserve mangagement

(Information from the WWF website).