Mounting development is a grave threat because of how it is carving up an ecosystem that must stay relatively intact to function.

State-controlled companies now run an industry once known for its acid pits, radioactive waste and smugglers.

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.