Apes live in hot tropical and subtropical forests. They also live in great danger from hunters and illegal traders, and their forests are being destroyed by farmers and loggers. There are groups such as The Pingtung Rescue Center in Taiwan, supported by Monkey World in England who try to help. They search apes that are being illegally sold in Asian markets and work with the police to rescue them.

This book's "up close and personal" photographs of pandas and its array of panda facts will captivate young nonfiction lovers. Readers will learn how one mother and her cub are being protected and raised in a Chinese panda reserve, which seeks to help this vulnerable species survive. In fact, ChiDa, the panda cub, is being prepared to be released into the wild--once she is old enough and has learned important life skills from her mom! Young readers...