Red Panda Network (RPN)

Mission The Red Panda Network is committed to protecting the red panda and preserving forest habitat through the empowerment of local communities by adaptive community-based research, education, carbon mitigation, and sustainable development. We employ locals as forest guardians, the first known organization to practice community-based monitoring in the Himalayas. Vision RPN ensures the survival of the red panda and its habitat for future generations to study, experience and enjoy. The Need The red panda and its habitat are endangered due to conversion of forest to farms and pastures through overgrazing. RPN creates innovative alternatives that increase the probability of survival of the red panda and other endangered species benefiting from the habitat conservation work we do. Millions of people in the Himalayan highlands and downstream depend on the forest resources, water, and climate stabilization these forest provide from Nepal, North-Eastern India, Bhutan, Myanmar, to China. RPN is a 501(c)3 US Not-For Profit organization working worldwide. Please note for Nepal: Working in Nepal through several local Nepali and international NGO partners since 2005, in 2011 RPN was recognized by the government as an international NGO. RPN created Red Panda Network-Nepal in 2007 as a local Nepali organization but cut ties in 2009 due to that affiliate staff's lack of financial reporting and contract performance. Their use of our logo is in breach of copyright laws.