Giant panda Tao Tao practices climbing trees under the protection of her mother, Cao Cao, during a wild training session in ...

On an October night in the Sichuan mountains, astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record the tranquil beauty of star trails over Mount Xiannairi. What he captured instead was ...

Chinese soldiers were deployed to try to rescue the firefighters Thirty firefighters have died while tackling a huge forest fire in south-western China, officials say. Fire crews had been battling ...

A convoy of 212 off-roaders set off from Sichuan-Xizang Highway Museum in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Dec ...

Together with the nature preserves in Wolong of Sichuan province and Dinghu Mountain of Guangdong Province, it has become a base for international scientific research into China's indigenous wildlife.

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Deep in the mountains of western Sichuan I'm hacking through a bamboo jungle, trying to find a legendary trail.

The bodies of 15 people have been found after a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western ... after the side of a mountain collapsed at about 06:00 local time (22:00 GMT Friday).

But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is now restricted to around 20 isolated patches of bamboo forest in six mountain ranges in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu ...