Giant Panda National Park

China first unveiled plans for the national park in 2017. In the decades leading to the plans, China's giant panda habitats had been fragmented by human activity, natural disasters, and climate change. This scattered giant panda populations into roughly 30 isolated groups, located across mountain ranges in the western provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. The national park reconnects these populations by combining 67 existing natural reserves and protected areas into a single space. == References ==