Dafengding Nature Reserve Explained

The Dafengding Nature Reserve is located in Meigu County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and in the Mabian Yi Autonomous County in Leshan prefecture-level city, both in Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China.

• Elevation: 1240 – 3835 meters (Meigu reserve); 1200–4042 meters (Mabian reserve)
• Area: 159.50 sq. kilometers (Meigu reserve); 301.46 sq. kilometers (Mabian reserve)
• Established: 1978

The southernmost population of pandas live in this area. Beside the giant panda, fauna in the reserve include:

• red panda^[2]
• Asiatic black bears
• blue sheep
• giant salamander https://web.archive.org/web/20070313023334/http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/amphibians/Andrias_davidianus/more_info.html
• golden monkey
• goral
• leopard
• clouded leopard
• macaque
• muntjac
• sambar

External links

• China Species Information Service - Meigu reserve
• CSIS - Mabian reserve
• Giant panda tour

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mabiandafengding Nature Reserve . protectedplanet.net .
2. Zhou, X. . amp . Jiao, H. . Dou, Y. . Aryal, A. . Hu, J. . Hu, J. . Meng, X. . 2013 . The winter habitat selection of Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) in the Meigu Dafengding National Nature Reserve, China . 105 . 10 . 1425–1429 . Current Science .