Editor's note: China Daily is publishing a series illustrating the country's efforts to achieve its carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. A forestry worker fells bamboo trees in Anji, Zhejiang ...

But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is now restricted to around 20 isolated patches of bamboo forest in six mountain ranges in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu ...

one of China's more well-known and loved animals, is a state protected (first class) animal. It inhabits the bamboo forest zones at 2,000-3,000 meters above sea level in north Sichuan Province ...