The population of giant pandas may be growing, but recent threats to their habitat could put them back on the endangered list.

Even though Pandas' extinction risk was recently downgraded from endangered to vulnerable, there are only 1,800 left in the wild. Recent satellite imagery shows that panda habitats in China are shrinking and becoming more fragmented.

Scientists say the key to the panda species' survival involves protecting their habitat from both manmade and natural threats.