Abstract: Based on the third nationwide survey of the giant panda, the total of wild giant pandas is 1 596, and is confined in 44 counties of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. The total area of habitats summed up to 2 304 991ha. Compared to the second nationwide survey, the subsistence of wild giant pandas has been improved in recent years, which was represented by its wideness of distribution, improvement of the habitat quality and increase of total population size. The author pointed out that future conservation would confront great challenges, including from its own biological characteristics, habitat fragmentation and future fate of small isolated populations, and conflicts between giant panda protection and development of local community economics. The author also proposed the prospects for the future giant panda conservation as follows: the total of nature reserve related to the giant panda will be increased and its habitat will be improved; the population of wild giant pandas will gradually increase, but extinction rate of some local small populations will be accumulated; the captive giant panda population will become self-sustaining and the reintroduction of captive pandas will be implicated in the near future.

Key words: Distribution, Habitat, Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), Nature Reserve, Population

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关键词: 大熊猫, 种群, 分布, 栖息地, 自保保护区