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The giant panda's habitat is on the mountainous edge of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, Central-West and Southwest China. Giant pandas mainly live Sichuan, with a few populations in Shaanxi and Gansu. Before extensive farming and deforestation in China, the giant panda lived in many lowland areas of China's interior.

Giant pandas live in rainy, mountainous bamboo forests 1,200 to 3,100 meters (4,000 to 10,000 feet) above sea level.

Giant panda habitat has been reduced by developing China's logging and farming practices, until logging was banned by the government in 1998. Now over 50 nature reserves, covering over 1,000,000 hectares (2,600,000 acres), protect some of the remaining wild panda populations. However, the separation of habitat areas due to development means that pandas sometimes starve if the bamboo in their area has a bad year.

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