Ailuropoda melanoleuca

– Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	CARNIVORA
Family:	URSIDAE
Scientific Name:	Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Species Authority:	(David, 1869)
Common Name/s:	GIANT PANDA (Eng) PANDA GÉANT (Fre) PANDA (Fre) PANDA GIGANTE (Spa)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EN B1+2c, C2a ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Bear Specialist Group

Justification:

The status of the Giant Panda has been revised and updated by members of the IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group. The new assessment has been accepted for inclusion on the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A draft of the new assessment, together with the supporting documentation, can be viewed by following the link below.

For further information about this species, see 712.pdf (195 KB). A PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.

History:

1965	-	"Very rare but believed to be stable or increasing" (Scott 1965)
1986	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

China (Gansu, Hubei - regionally extinct, Hunan - regionally extinct, Shaanxi, Sichuan)

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine

List of Habitats:

1.4	Forest - Temperate

Threats

List of Threats:

1.1.1.1	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Crops - Shifting Agriculture (ongoing)
1.1.3.2	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Non-timber plantations - Large-scale (ongoing)
1.3.3	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood (ongoing)
1.4.2	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Infrastructure development - Human settlement (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)
4.1.2.1	Accidental mortality - Bycatch - Terrestrial - Trapping/snaring/netting (ongoing)
9.2	Intrinsic factors - Poor recruitment/reproduction/regeneration (ongoing)
9.5	Intrinsic factors - Low densities (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Servheen, C., Herrero, S. and Peyton, B. (compilers). 1998. Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Bear and Polar Bear Specialist Groups. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Bear Specialist Group 1996. Ailuropoda melanoleuca. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 May 2008.
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