%0 Journal Article %A LI Jingzhi %A JIANG Guangshun %T Research advances and prepectives on habitat assessment and protection of endangered mammals of China %D 2021 %R 10.16829/j.slxb.150501 %J ACTA THERIOLOGICA SINICA %P 604-613 %V 41 %N 5 %X At present, global, species are facing increasing extinction risk at an unprecedented rate. The effective assessment and scientific protection of wildlife habitat are important prerequisites and means to prevent endangered wildlife from extinction and maintain their sustainable survivals and development. This article summarizes the current status and achievements of research progress on habitat assessment and protection from five categories of endangered wildlife in China:carnivores, ungulates, primates, small mammals, and marine mammals. This article summarizes and analyzes related acade-mic achievements in order to reveal systematic and valuable methods and technical means for the scientific protection and management of habitats. This article also offers prospects for the theoretical and technical challenges of habitat assessment and protection research. It proposes that the habitat assessment and protection research of endangered mammals in China should move towards a ‘precise’ development direction of integration, quantification, intelligence, and multi-disciplinary cross-integration applications, to provide technical support for the effective implementation of national ecological construction projects. %U http://www.mammal.cn/EN/10.16829/j.slxb.150501