Since April 2003, Yangon Zoological Garden has been showing a rare red panda to the public, and it proves to be really a popular attraction.
The two and half year old female, which was captured in the wild in Kachin State, is being specially treated. She is kept in a special enclosure equipped with air-conditioned cubicle and fed mainly bamboo leaves.
According to the Zoo’s Management Committee, the number of red pandas in Myanmar is not large and if good care is not taken, they are in danger of extinction.
On the website of International Union for Conservation of Nature says that there were fewer than 2,500 mature red pandas in 1999. Besides Myanmar, the attractive red pandas are also found in China, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Laos.

Zoo Management Committee also expressed their concern that the red panda might become lonely living in enclosure according to occurrences of such behavioral circumstances in other animals in captivity.
Human beings and animals lived in harmony with nature for ages. The latterly exploitation of nature by mankind brought about environmental disasters: unscrupulous commercial logging, extensive mining, hunting, fishing and fowling damaged the mother nature irreparably.