Rising high above the hustle and bustle of a busy and expanding China are where our dear pandas live now. Having been forced to move into these small regions due to China's population growth, it takes some special people willing to climb and explore these mountains to conduct the latest panda census.
MSNBC went along with a couple of the researchers to show us how the census is coming along how the use of gps and other technological advances are helping.
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Here are a couple of maps thanks to the WWF, that show previous habitat and current map zoomed in showing areas the giant pandas now live.

