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Giant pandas live in the bamboo forests of China and play a crucial role within that forest by spreading seeds and helping vegetation to grow. Pandas are also important to the livelihoods of local communities, who depend on these ecosystems for food, income, fuel for cooking and heating and medicine. And protecting these Pandas’ bamboo habitats upstream ensures that cities downstream have safe and clean access to water.

Giant pandas love bamboo!

Because of their incredible natural camouflage, making them almost invisible in their surroundings, snow leopards are often referred to as the ghost of the mountains. Snow leopards are capable of eating prey up to three times their weight, including wild sheep and wild deer. They also have one of the longest tails of any big cat species. As a changing climate increasingly affects the resources and habitats that both snow leopards and local communities share, WWF is working to help communities and species adapt.

Primarily a bamboo-eating herbivore like giant pandas, the smaller red panda is slightly larger than a domestic cat, with a raccoon-like body and thick russet fur. Red pandas live at high altitudes within bamboo forests and spend most of their time in trees. But the loss of their nesting trees and bamboo is causing a decline in red panda populations, which is why it’s so critical to protect their habitats.

After a century of decline, some wild tiger populations are starting to recover. As large predators, wild tigers play a key role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem for both nature and people. Tiger conservation projects can directly help local communities by providing alternative livelihoods like tourism, as well as income from investing in tiger-friendly practices and sustainable forestry to protect more habitat for tigers. Tigers prefer to eat hoofed animals such as wild deer and wild pigs.

Pangolin comes from ‘penggulung,’ the Malay word for roller — the action a pangolin takes in self-defense. Pangolins love to eat termites and ants. The pangolin is the most trafficked mammal in the world, as their scales and meat are highly valued for certain medicine practices and as a delicacy in some cultures. WWF and partners are working to stop wildlife trafficking and actively trying to reduce demand for illegal wildlife products.