14 DAY TRIAL // The Internet is pretty much drowning in videos of baby pandas and their moms. Still, most of these videos come from zoos and other wildlife sanctuaries whose staff is working to keep this species from going extinct by breeding pandas in captivity.
Leave it to the folks at the World Wildlife Fund to make our day by releasing footage of a giant panda cub and its mom going for a walk not around a zoo enclosure, but in the wild, where they belong.
According to the video's description on YouTube, the footage was obtained with the help of a camera trap set up in China's Anzihe Nature Reserve.
“Two wild giant pandas were captured on a WWF camera trap roaming through the Sichuan Anzihe Nature Reserve,” the organization explains.
“This charming footage is a valuable conservation tool as it is part of a larger effort to monitor endangered giant panda populations and develop strategies to save the world's rarest—and possibly favorite – member of the bear family,” it adds.