Roughly a thousand years ago, an estimated 23,000 pandas roamed wild and free through their native China. But within the past forty years, more than fifty percent of the panda's already shrinking habitat has been destroyed by humans, leaving the beautiful and beloved giant panda vulnerable to extinction. Despite the seemingly insurmountable odd--poaching, habitat destruction, pollution, human overpopulation, and global climate chang--the panda is making a comeback. How? By humans teaching baby pandas how to be wild and stay wild.

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Prologue -- Pandas in peril -- Then & now -- Reality check -- What hope looks like -- Change comes -- Habitat critical -- Dissent -- Camp Panda -- Hope brings success -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Index.