Nepal community efforts revive red panda population

Taplejung, Nepal (AFP) Mar 14, 2025

Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda. Red pandas may share a similar name to giant pandas - due to their bamboo diet - but the copper-hued mammals with raccoon-like features are much smaller, typically the size of a house cat. "I was 17 a