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With a New Afterword. In 1980, George Schaller was invited by the World Wildlife Fund and the Chinese Government to Sichuan Province, to study the giant panda, a mammal so rare that there are only an estimated 1000 individuals left. For four and a half years, he and his wife studied the pandas. This book is the story of these studies, and gives much insight into the behaviour and ecology of this fascinating species. It is also a frank and disturbing account of what has gone wrong in the attempt to protect the pandas, how bureaucratic bungling, and economic and political pressures, have misdirected conservation efforts. Schaller concludes that the panda can, and must, survive.
`Vintage Schaller this: an adventure to be relived, a lesson learned.' E O Wilson.