卧龙熊猫自然保护区是以保护高山生态系统及大熊猫、金丝猴、珙桐等珍稀物种为主的综合性国家级自然保护区。保护面积20万公顷。温暖湿润的自然环境为众多生物的栖息和繁衍提供了良好的条件。据统计：区内有脊椎动物450种，其中兽类103种；鸟类281种；爬行类21种；两栖类14种；鱼类11种。已采集到的昆虫标本约1700种。高等植物4000多种，隶属于217科814属。被列为国家重点保护的物种有：大熊猫、金丝猴、牛羚、白唇鹿、绿尾虹雉、珙桐、水青、连香、红豆杉等。区内分布的100余只野生大熊猫占全国总数的10%因而使卧龙以“熊猫之乡”“宝贵的生物基因库”响誉中外。 

　　保护区始建于1963年，是中国最早建立的保护区之一，1980年被批准加入联合国教科文组织人与生物圈保护区网，同年与世界野生生物基金会合作建立了中国保护大熊猫研究中心。

　　保护区奇妙的自然景观、变化多样的森林植被、幽深的环境以及形形色色的稀有动植物汇集成一种难于抗拒的诱人魅力，吸引着更多的中外游客和科学工作者前来观赏、探索、揭开它深遂的奥秘。

In 1963, Wolong national nature reserve was established to protect rare wild animals and plants such as giant panda, gnu, Chinese dove tree and forests which give priority to nature ecosystem and wild animal national nature reserves. It is located in Wenchuan county of Aba, an autonomous prefecture of Zang nationality and Qiaing nationality. The reserve bestrides both Wolong and Dida, with a length of 52 km from west to east and a width of 62 km from north to south. Its total area is 200 thousand hectares.
The height above the sea level of the Wolong nature reserve is from 1,150 to 6,250 m, and it is in the scope of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with a weather condition which can be described as small differences in temperature, evident wet and dry seasons, a concentrated rainfall and an obvious vertical variety in climates. Wolong has several world famous praises such as  "hometown of giant pandas" ,  "broad-spectrum gene pool of animals and plants" and "natural park of animals and plants" . There are altogether more than 150 giant pandas in this reserve and there are 65 giant pandas bred in wild, finishing a ratio of 10% of the total amount. There are 56 kinds of species which are listed as rare species in danger which are under national protection such as giant panda, golden monkey and takin, among which, there are 13 species such as giant panda, golden monkey, white lipped deer, takin, leopard, ounce, clouded leopard, golden eagle and black ibis belonging to the wild animals and plants under first class protection, and there are 42 species such as Rock Ptarmigan, Tibetan macaque, macaque, black bear, otter, Asian golden cat, blue sheep and zibet belonging to the wild animals and plants under second class protection. In Wolong reserve, there are 450 kinds of vertebrates and 1,989 kinds of higher plants. There are 23 kinds of plants in danger which are under national protection such as Chinese dove tree.
Wolong is the biggest natural species base which is conserved best in China at present. It joined the  “man and biosphere"    reserve network of UNESCO in  1980 and established China Giant Panda Protection Research Centre by way of cooperating with world wildlife fund. There is an exclusive China Wolong giant panda museum; there is the first giant panda open-field ecological monitoring station-Wuyi shed; there is the giant panda garden of CCRCGP ( the biggest semi wildness giant panda captive feed field ) .
As an obvious country vertical plant strip chart with a range from semi-tropical zone to frigid zone; there are developing modern glaciers and ancient glacier relics. Natural sight of Wolong collected characters such as mountain, water, forest, cavity, danger, severe, queer and beauty together. High mountains and meadows, original forests, flowing springs and flying waterfalls, rare and fantastic flowers and grasses, red leaves, snow mountainsides, rare and fantastic animals and cloud sea would make you reluctant to leave. The four seasons in the same mountain and the different weathers within 5 km are really surprising.