Giant Panda: A Successful Conservation Story?

As one of the most charismatic conservation species of our time, the giant panda was recently down-listed internationally from endangered to vulnerable. Many people cheered the change as signaling a conservation success story. A long-term field study reveals a more complex story of wild giant panda life history.

Speaker Dajun Wang is a wildlife biologist with the School of Life Sciences at Peking University, based in Bejing, China. His research focuses on the ecology of wildlife in western China, especially endangered species conservation and the role of human disturbance. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on wild giant pandas.