Black and white cat-foot.
Your numbers are rising but
your home shrinks and splits.
The giant panda (whose Latin binomial name literally means black and white cat-foot) is a poster species for animal conservation yet recently the IUCN Red List downgraded the species from endangered to vulnerable based on an increase in adult population since 1988.
Despite this population increase there remains concern for the future of the species. A study by Xu et al (2017) using remote sensing data suggests that both the total amount of available giant panda habitat and the average size of habitat patches (an indication of habitat fragmentation) have decreased substantially. Whilst total area and habitat patch size have shown signs of an recovery since 2001, they still remain below 1988 levels (1.7% and 13.3% lower respectively).