The Giant Panda needs your help to survive NCE every eighty to a hundred years the bamboo forests in China’s Sichuan Province burst O into flower and then die off. And that’s bad news for the Giant Panda, which depends for its survival on huge amounts of bamboo. But that’s just one of the problems facing the Panda. To ensure that it has a future it is vital to preserve the complex ecosystem in which it lives, to carry out research into its dietary needs and investigate possible alternatives, to discover the reasons for its low reproduction rate, to study the problem of internal parasites — all these faaors and many more which threaten its survival. Recognition of the urgent need to solve these and other problems has resulted in a unique and historic partnership between WWF and the People’s Republic of China. WWF has agreed to contribute US $1,000,000 towards a total of about US $3,000,000 needed by the Chinese Government to mount a major Panda Conservation Programme. This includes construction of a research and conservation centre in the largest of the Panda reserves — Wolong Natural Reserve in Sichuan Province. A team from WWF, led by the distinguished ecologistDr. G. Schaller, is already at work in Wolong together with top Chinese scientists under the leadership of Professor Hu Jinchu. The Giant Panda is an endangered animal. It is also the symbol of WWF’s worldwide conservation efforts to save life on earth. But WWF needs money - your money. Please send contributions to the WWF National Organisation in your country or direct to: WWF International, 1196 Gland, Switzerland. WWF WORLD WILDLIFE FUND Click here to return to the text.