“They sort of cracked the code,” said photographer Ami Vitale, whose new book “Panda Love” documents the country’s efforts to breed pandas in captivity and release them into the wil ...

Before photographer Ami Vitale ventured up to the Wolong Nature Reserve in China, local panda caretakers warned her not to get her hopes up. "People are like, 'Well how hard can it be to shoot a ...

This story appears in the October/November 2016 issue of Nat Geo WILD magazine. Photographer Ami Vitale’s philosophy of “living the story” has put her in a variety of unique situations ...