Pulling the panda back from the brink.
The panda is on the road to recovery.
For fifty years, it has been the world's most beloved conservation icon and WWF's symbol.
Back in the 1980s, there were as few as 1,114 pandas in China.
But the most recent survey in 2014 estimated that there were 1,864 pandas living in the wild.
After 30 years of slow but steady progress, the IUCN has now changed the panda's status on the Red List of Threatened Species.
The decision is a recognition of the hard work of the Chinese government, local communities, nature reserve staff and WWF over many years. »