A ten-episode television documentary based on filming shot over 19 years with infrared-triggered cameras featuring giant pandas in the wild started screening Monday night on the Travel Channel in China.

The documentary,"Real Panda," tells the story of wild pandas living in west China's Qinling Mountainous Range. It offers audiences a rare glimpse of how giant pandas live in the wild: a panda cub being stalked by a stoat, a mother panda forcing her son away after maturing, and pandas courting their partners.

Lu Zhi, a woman researcher who has helped with a large part of the shooting, told Xinhua that the documentary was aimed at attracting wider participation in protecting wild pandas as this was key to their survival.

This year will mark the 30th anniversary of China's efforts to protect wild pandas, and the documentary was dedicated to this end, said Lu, executive director of the Center for Nature and Society in Peking University.

Lu and several other researchers started to track wild pandas in 1985.