Seeking Sanctuary

As China’s giant pandas edge ever closer to extinction, the country’s captive reserves, including Chengdu Research Base in Sichuan Province, provide a final refuge for its most famous inhabitants.

Bundle
It was playtime at Chengdu Research Base as a gang of seven young pandas woke from a post-lunch nap.
A young panda catches forty winks in the cleft tree.
A mother rolls her baby around in play.

A pair of pandas observing one of the common sights in Chengdu Research Base – a curious tourist.

Having six digits allows a panda to grip, and the cubs learn from their mothers how to hold on to their food. Despite being fussy when it comes to deciding which species of bamboo to eat, pandas can’t resist a rosy apple.

A young panda depends totally on its mother for its first year of life.

Call of Yellowstone

Follow in the paw prints of the iconic gray wolves of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Experience the tracking and watching of Yellowstone NP’s iconic gray wolves in the winter snows.

In the last century the gray wolf was hunted to extinction all over the US, but since 1995 they have been gradually repopulating the ecosystem of Yellowstone Park in Montana, to the delight of dedicated ‘wolfers’ from around the world.

Howling is audible over great distances and can be used by pack members to keep in touch when separated.

Yellowstone’s rugged hills and rapid rivers sustain a wealth of wildlife. The sharp eyes and keen nose of gray wolf

Yellowstone comes with the opportunity to see bison, bighorn sheep and other-worldly geological features. A herd of bison block one of the roads through the park.

A bighorn sheep living up to its name. Elk dozing in the winter sunshine. A Coyote pouncing on a hapless vole.

The magnificent wilderness that is Yellowstone National Park.

A harsh winter in Yellowstone is tolerated by its wolf population, although keeping camouflaged is not so easy.