Wolong Nature Reserve

1. General Information

Located in the transitional areas featuring high mountains and deep gorges between Sichuan Basin and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Wolong Nature Reserve belongs to the core part of Qionglai Mountain Range and is in the southwest Wengchuan County of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. Mainly protecting the rare and precious wildlife including Giant Panda and the forest ecological system, Wolong Nature Reserve is famed as the Hometown of Giant Panda and is known as one of the best-preserved places with the largest number for the biological species coming from far ancient times in the world.

▲ Chinese Monal. A China endemic under national class one protection

2. Natural Resources in the reserve

With crisscrossing high mountains and deep valleys, the reserve features a huge elevation gap with a maximum elevation gap of 5,100 meters between the highest point and lowest point. Thanks to altitude gradient, Wolong Nature Reserve has a vertical distribution of vegetation from evergreen broad-leaf forest to alpine meadows. The complex natural geological environments bring abundant biodiversity to the reserve including some national key-protected plants and wildlife such as Giant Panda, Lesser Panda, Sichuan Takin, Snow Leopard, Chinese Monal, Temminck's Tragopan, Blood Pheasant, and Cypripedium tibeticum.

▲ Meconopsis punicea, the red lover of the Plant Hunter Wilson

▲ Grandala, a star-bird on Balang Mountain

▲ Lesser Panda, a companion animal of Giant Panda

▲ Blue Sheep. Master of Cliff

▲ Cypripedium flavum. Look like a Pea Shooter 

▲ Purple Primrose