A young American boy visiting China helps his zoologist father rescue a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers while its reserve is threatened with closure from officious bureaucrats.

Ryan Tyler visits his zoologist father on a panda reserve in China while on summer vacation and gets involved in the rescue of a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers who want to murder its mother and sell it to a zoo. A young Chinese girl named Ling and her grandfather help in the rescue which, if successful, will ultimately result in saving the reserve from being shut down by officious bureaucrats.—duke1029