Indie Short Film: Looking for Endangered Red Pandas in Nepal

Red pandas are on the brink of extinction. There are estimates that there could be as few as 2,500 red pandas left in the wild. But one woman has devoted her life to help fight for this species from heading to extinction.
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Have you ever seen a red panda outside of captivity? Do you know what a red panda is?? They live in dense bamboo forests at high-altitudes making them even harder to spot. Which is ideal to keep them away from poachers, but not great for those who want to save them such as the guardians of the Red Panda Network who walk the forests of the Nepalese Himalayas, to track and count them.
This documentary follows the first female member of the Red Panda Network as she and the team hope to find a hint to the species survival. This is Firefox Guardian from wildlife filmmaker Gunjan Menon. Special thanks to Jackson Wild.
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[@Seeker]

Thanks for watching the first film in our 2022 Seeker Indie showcase! Look out for more films next Tuesday. What other endangered species are you curious about?

[@drstone7014]

What if the red panda was declared extinct. To discover Hunter's and any evidence to the contrary is covered up .if someone finds a body Come in and destroy it

[@stevechance150]

Was that Tangerine Dream in the opening background?

[@EonityLuna]

I genuinely hope Disney/Pixar can consider donating money to red panda conservation, what with Turning Red’s popularity and all.

[@dynodevil5121]

Firefox browser should take care of thr real life logo and brand...

[@GthicratLastusednameCuterat]

@@dynodevil5121 isn't it a fox?

[@ChrisHarmon1]

@@GthicratLastusednameCuterat lool

[@dynodevil5121]

@@GthicratLastusednameCuterat still they are poor animal they can not complaint about copyright to anyone so it can not proved

[@sushantmanandhar1387]

Loooool Disney donating anything to any cause other than the pockets of its board of directors

[@ronilbhattarai]

I was lucky to see a red panda in the wild last year while trekking in Lantang region of Nepal. I feel so fortunate

[@NischalSapkotavlogs]

Yes me to

[@dregoth0]

I have no idea how someone could look at one of these creatures and say "I want to skin that".

[@big5031]

My thoughts exactly, but when you're children are starving and your dirt poor-its probably a no brainer

[@wizard32172]

Sounds like the country doesn't care about its people!

[@erinmcdonald7781]

This is a beautiful short about protectors of this unique panda. I didn't realize they were called firefoxes, so cool. Much respect to those doing this work, and to you for bringing this to us! 💚✊

[@seittrr9739]

✊💚

[@sunilbudhathoki8714]

Thank you Seeker for featuring this .

[@matthewgoetzka8855]

thank you to everyone who works in their community to protect native wildlife

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

Love from Darjeeling, India We also have several of them in our forests

[@nepalimongoltiktok]

NEPAl is beautiful country 🥰♥️ love from Thailand

[@ziaulhaq4269]

Pandas are the cutest animal , these need to be safer...

[@officialraqs3985]

Indeed the cutest

[@NischalSapkotavlogs]

We should conserve this animal in our Nepal

[@meDarkmask]

I only learned about red pandas this year. I liked them the first time I saw them. At that time, I thought red pandas were pets. Only through introductions on some channels did I learn that red pandas are endangered animals and very rare. They are so cute. I didn’t expect them. It is really abominable that criminals smuggle their fur. I hope everyone will know red pandas, love them and prevent them from becoming extinct, so that our next generation can see them.

[@samanthashaw1599]

Thank you, Firefox Guardians!! Your efforts are SO appreciated. These gentle creatures are one of many blessings on Mother Earth❤️🌍❤️🌎

[@samanthashaw1599]

With love from Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia Canada

[@madhabborgohain4268]

This is from where Mozilla Firefox name came. So beautiful being in Himalayas living. 🦊

[@Yash-jt6gj]

Appreciate the efforts put into this and for the content it provides👏🏻

[@juliacoves5873]

It's upsetting she faced sexism when she just wanted to help pandas :(

[@mayling141]

Thank you for her efforts

[@absbabs6153]

I saw some Red Pandas in India just roaming around freely. It was nice to see, and they were near a huge temple so I think nobody was disturbing them

[@sancortexstk5252]

Do you mean monkeys?

[@absbabs6153]

@@sancortexstk5252 no not monkeys. They were too distinct to be mistaken for anything else

[@D__Ujjwal]

​@@sancortexstk5252India has largest population of red panda

[@pikachu3b366m]

​@@D__UjjwalWrong. China has the largest population of Red Pandas.

[@sebastianhuang]

Finally watching some quality video from youtube !!!!

[@Dudleymiddleton]

I've been using firefox on my computer since day one - never knew that the red panda had that name!

[@ujelisunar6115]

Sorry it was mistake mame for red panda. ,one day you will know about this firebox in social media.

[@masterimbecile]

Just wait until a certain Chinese Canadian turns 13 in Toronto.

[@ddpwe5269]

Great video! Although, I'm pretty sure the poachers know exactly what they're doing. There's a reason they try not to get caught.

[@adarshbelwal5905]

Nepali people are very hard working.

[@RomansVault]

beautifully filmed

[@anamarialunaduenas1455]

Best documentary, about helping these beautiful animal

[@pathfinderwellcare]

Powerful story. I learned so much. Thank you!💗

[@madara-lp7xf]

We Nepalese are so blessed to have such a cute & awesome creature like this in our land we have to halp this lady to save this animal ❤

[@aplover2103]

Wonderful thanks for awareness

[@shauhardrana4855]

Let support her incredible work

[@AmanYadav-et1vq]

Excellent work 👏👏

[@north_indian_pajeet_madharchod]

Yes. I've seen Red Panda during my college trip in Northern Sikkim.

[@manevulis]

I'm not crying, you are😢

[@prabinhudeomaharjan]

love the video from my country

[@rubidot]

How does finding the panda protect it from poachers? In what ways do the local people depend on the pandas?

[@hyenaman12]

My favourite animal!

[@gailvarchula5542]

Red Pandas are beautiful. Very sad life. PRAY 🙏

[@dundermifflinity]

The documentary is very well made

[@pillmuncher67]

Aren't these called Fire Ferrets?

[@indyreno2933]

No, in fact, they're correctly called red pandas, in fact, pandas are not the same thing as the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), a panda is any caniform carnivoran that is native exclusively to Eurasia and has eventually evolved a fully herbivorous niche feeding mostly on fruits, leaves, and bamboo, therefore the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) is also a panda, the extinct species closely related to the giant panda and red panda respectively are also pandas, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) are the only two extant representatives of the families Ailuropodidae and Ailuridae respectively, in fact, the word "panda" is derived from the Nepalese word "poyna" which means bamboo eater and the name was first given to the red panda, indicating that the red panda was named and discovered before the giant panda, in fact pandas are not a monophyletic group at all, they are actually a polyphyletic group as the greater pandas (family Ailuropodidae) and lesser pandas (family Ailuridae) are very different from each other and are not closely related, the former is most closely related to the bears (family Ursidae) and is classified within the superfamily Ursoidea, while the latter is actually part of a different superfamily known as Procyonoidea, which groups it with the skunks, stink badgers, raccoons, ringtail, cacomistle, coatis, olingos, olinguito, and kinkajou of the families Mephitidae, Procyonidae, and Nasuidae, while both the extant giant panda and red panda feed on fruits, leaves, and bamboo, this is a similar diet to which african primates use as well with the greater pandas (family Ailuropodidae) filling a similar ecological niche that is occupied by gorillas and lesser pandas (family Ailuridae) filling a similar ecological niche that is occupied by monkeys such as colobuses, guenons, and vervets.

[@12jalbrandao]

That is actually a fire ferret!

[@drstone7014]

Why is it the red panda in turning red for becoming a powerful warrior

[@brainmaze3613]

People please stop harming red pandas! 🐒 🐘

[@Bassotronics]

The great Mozilla wants his Firefoxes back.

[@sangitathami4973]

wow

[@pothannasetti]

Excellent documentary made by seeker

[@dzuhhh]

meimei😅✨❤

[@TheMagnificentGman]

Is this the full documentary?

[@absbabs6153]

Part 1 of it I think yes

[@oolong2]

I don't understand how looking for pandas "protects" the pandas.... It's not clear how they are protecting them from poachers.

[@HarlemSexyBlaqkat]

They tag and keep count, advocate for laws to criminalize poaching, create no hunting grounds where the red panda lives, get red panda on the extinction list so they are protected.

[@oolong2]

@@HarlemSexyBlaqkat Seems as if there are already laws that say it's illegal. But laws are meaningless if they are not being enforced.

[@MANDAMUS_333]

Master Shifu!!!

[@nothingpersonal4109]

Visit Nepal 2022

[@ijustwanttosleepnow]

This is why it is so important to not wear fur even if it’s fake. It’s a status symbol that has to be dismantled. No fur ever.

[@ujelisunar6115]

This is not called fire fox, Red panda anoher name is fire ferret. In nepali it is called Habre.

[@sunex6806]

I have seen red panda in Nepal.

[@sarthakbhole3724]

Wtf! It's harder to watch this on 1x

[@Lords1997]

😢♥️

[@LA-MJ]

so that's how you meet a fellow Firefox user

[@armyranger5100]

Pabu?

[@marleydai4141]

😢😢

[@thetruth34o9]

Imagine driving a creature this beautiful to extinction- we have done it countless times and sadly will do it countless more. Humans suck.

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

The people poaching these animals (and most other animals as well) mostly do so because they are poor and catching and selling a red panda or parts of it can bring them the money they need to survive and care for their families. Humans aren’t the problem, the current system in which impoverished people don’t get enough support to come by without feeling the need to do such things to feed themselves and their families is the problem. Conservation without care for the poor people in such areas can’t ever work. That’s also why projects where poor people are paid to work as rangers and to protect the animals they would otherwise hunt are so effective.

[@user-qi3lv5og4v]

@@yourlocaltoad5102 Well said , a knowledgeable person on the internet very hard to find!!

[@teambeining]

I’ll take two! Jk - I know turning them into pets is not the solution.

[@djbokasuja]

e é notícia!

[@prabinpaudel5572]

I'm a nepali and am yet to see one

[@xliquidflames]

If they're so elusive that, "only a handful have seen them in the wild," how are they being poached?

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Poachers often use traps, which don’t require them to see or find the animal. They just need to place the traps in it’s natural habitat and regularly check if one got caught

[@TheAgent0097]

Real life pokemon

[@monibstar]

Save the Red Panda locally known as Habre =^·^=

[@rupakc956]

🙏❤️🇳🇵

[@drstone7014]

What if they were declared extinct to descrage hunter's and any evidence to contrary gets covered congested . And Destroyed

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Then some poacher would still see the animal, word about that would spread and the poaching would continue while there would be much less money for conversation since people wouldn’t pay to protect an animal that’s already extinct. Providing the poachers and other poor people in the area with other options to make money would be much more efficient, since most poachers do so out of poverty and the prospect of making at least some money by hunting and selling these animals

[@ssherrierable]

Leopards and black bears? Fucc that… 💨

[@arman_3477]

Is it dog?

[@indyreno2933]

No, a dog is any carnivoran that belongs to the family Canidae.

[@tylerharry6319]

I know they're endangered, but can I have one? I just need one of those cute little fluff balls, or two, yeah two would be better.

[@spyro9844]

No

[@TheCaeraSimp]

first?

[@NischalSapkotavlogs]

Yes

[@kanishksingh6393]

congratulation

[@NischalSapkotavlogs]

Great

[@NischalSapkotavlogs]

@@kanishksingh6393 hi

[@kanishksingh6393]

@@NischalSapkotavlogs hi

[@kanishksingh6393]

second!

[@MrCoolDk11]

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[@itatube7594]

We have them. I am from arunachal. A Himalayan state bordering China, Bhutan and myanmar. We have red pandas in wild. We also have tigers here. But I don't see anyone counting them. Are you sure? Because whenever someone from outside comes to Arunachal, they always find a new species like plants, ferns, herbs, butterflies, monkeys etc. So I really don't this data are true.

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[@lexruptor]

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[@itsbandar]

while i appreciate the effort but please make the narrative by a native english speaker