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

Citation:	Bear Specialist Group 1996. Ailuropoda melanoleuca. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 May 2008.
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