Brown Panda, Qingling Mountains, Shaanxi Province, China

Environment, flora and fauna
The environment of the Qin Mountains is a deciduous forest ecoregion.
The Qin Mountains form the watershed between the Yellow River basin of northern China, which was historically home to deciduous broadleaf forests, and the Yangzi River basin of southern China, which has milder winters and more rainfall, and was historically home to warm temperate evergreen broadleaf forests.