The Dafengding Nature Reserve (大风顶) is located in Meigu County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and in the Mabian Yi Autonomous County in Leshan prefecture-level city, both in Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China. Meigu County ( Chinese: 美姑县 Pinyin: Měigū Xiàn is a part of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 凉山彝族自治州; Pinyin: Liángshān Yízú Zìzhìzhōu Yi: ꆃꎭ Niep Sha, Leshan ( literally meaning "happy mountain" is a Prefecture-level city located in the Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. A prefecture-level city ( or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and ( Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China with its capital in Chengdu. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES

• Elevation: 1240 - 3835 meters (Meigu reserve); 1200-4042 meters (Mabian reserve)
• Area: 159. 50 sq. kilometers (Meigu reserve); 301. 46 sq. kilometers (Mabian reserve)
• Established: 1978

The southernmost population of pandas live in this area. Beside the giant panda, fauna in the reserve include:

• Red panda
• Asiatic black bears
• blue sheep
• giant salamander [1]
• golden monkey
• goral
• leopard
• clouded leopard
• macaque
• muntjac
• sambar

External links

• China Species Information Service - Meigu reserve
• CSIS - Mabian reserve
• Giant panda tour

The Giant Panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca, "black-and-white cat-foot" is a Mammal classified in the Bear family ( Ursidae) native to The Red Panda, Firefox, Fire Cat, or Lesser Panda, "or Ailurus fulgens ("shining cat" is a mostly herbivorous Mammal The Hellbender and Asian giant Salamanders (family Cryptobranchidae) are aquatic Amphibians found in brooks and ponds in the Golden Monkey is the name of a Black tea originating from the Fujian and Yunnan provinces in China. The gorals are the four Species in the Genus Naemorhedus. They are small Ungulates with a Goat -like or Antelope The leopard (lɛpɚd Panthera pardus) is an Old World Mammal of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four roaring The Clouded Leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa) is a medium-sized cat, 55 to 110 cm (2 ft to 3 ft 6 in long and weighing between 15 and 23 kg (33 to 50 lb The macaques (məˈkæk constitute a genus ( Macaca, /məˈkækə/ of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.

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