From 1976 to 2001, the average size of bamboo forest patch—the panda's preferred habitat—shrunk by around 24 percent, only recovering by 1.8 percent in the years since.

I was filming elephants on foot in a bamboo forest.

He waited for a second and then scampered off into the bamboo forest with a global positioning device attached to his collar.

Outside the cabana, a pathway meanders through a bamboo forest and a five-acre organic farm where tropical fruits and aloe vera grow.

Rarer sightings include those of the golden cat and the bongo - an elusive forest antelope that lives in the bamboo forest.