Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
Solitary Enigma
By John Terborgh
The Last Panda
by George B. Schaller
University of Chicago Press, 291 pp., $24.95
The furry round-faced panda, so beloved in the West and the icon of the World Wildlife Fund, is, in its vanishing native habitat, an animal with a price on its head. What is treasured by one culture is dispassionately viewed as a source of quick revenue by another.
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