China

🐼Giant Panda: China's bamboo gourmet, a black-and-white bear that spends its life eating, and whose survival became a global conservation symbol.

🐼Red Panda: The firefox of the Himalaya, a russet tree-dweller with a ringed tail that is neither bear nor raccoon, but its own ancient family.

🐆Snow Leopard: Ghost of the Himalaya, a pale spotted cat that prowls above the tree line where oxygen is thin and prey is scarce.

🐂Yak: The shaggy giant of the roof of the world, a high-altitude bovine that carries life across the Tibetan Plateau.

🐾Pangolin: The world's most trafficked mammal, a scaly anteater that curls into an armoured ball when threatened.

🐆Clouded Leopard: Asia's cloud-patterned climber — short legs, long tail, and canines built for the canopy.

🦎Chinese Giant Salamander: The world's largest amphibian — an ancient, wrinkled stream giant of China's hills.

🦢Red-crowned Crane: East Asia's dancing crane — scarlet crown, snow-white plumage, and sacred wetland grace.

🐱Pallas's Cat: The manul — flat face, dense fur, and a legendary stare from Asia's cold grasslands.

🐒Golden Snub-nosed Monkey: Golden fur in snowy fir forests — upturned nose, blue face, and high-altitude primate splendour.

🦩Crested Ibis: Scarlet face, white-to-pink plumage — a rebounding East Asian wetland phoenix.