Dafengding Nature Reserve

The Dafengding Nature Reserve () 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, within the montane forests of the Hengduan Mountains.

• 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 giant pandas live in this area. Besides the giant panda, fauna in the reserve include:

• red panda
• Asiatic black bear
• blue sheep
• giant salamander https://web.archive.org/web/20070313023334/http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/amphibians/Andrias_davidianus/more_info.html
• golden monkey
• goral
• leopard
• clouded leopard
• macaque
• muntjac
• sambar

In 2025, researchers described mustelid specimens captured in the Dafengding Nature Reserve as a new species, Mustela mopbie.

References

External links

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