Chengdu Panda Breeding Center

The Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Center is a big destination for western tourists in China. China is trying to save its iconic, endangered panda with an ambitious breeding program for the animal that has a notoriously hard time reproducing and finding nutrition. The 13 sanctuaries in the Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains area are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The basic tour is 58 renminbi, about $8.50. For something like $150-200 you may get a few minutes holding a baby panda, some visitors say.

Baishuijang Nature Preserve

Baishuijiang National Nature Reserve is sometimes called China's Yellowstone, Fodor's says, meaning it's gorgeous, but also popular and crowded. It's also one of the few places outside Sichuan you might see a panda. It's in
 Wenxian County, south of Gansu Province. Chinabird.net calls it an important birding area.
Bonus species: the vulnerable Pallas's fish-eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus), the flashy Chinese monal

Labahe Nature Reserve

The mountainous Labahe Nature Reserve was started in 1963 to help save the giant panda. It's one of 13 nature preserves in the area that are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Bonus species: black-necked crane,Chinese monal

Bifend Gorge

The Bifeng Gorge is where many pandas were moved after China's 2008 catastrophic earthquake. Opened in 2004, the Bifengxia Panda Base provides a warmer climatethan the other panda areas. Visitors describe it as easy to see pandas in thesemi-wild near a zoo.

Dafeng Elk National Elk Preserve

Dafeng Elk National Preserve has about 1,000 free-ranging elk near the Yellow Sea. The park started in 1986 with 18 of the species of elk that were wiped out from China but kept alive in zoos in Europe. You can visit for about
22 yuan.  0515-83391912

Kazaringa National Park

Kazaringa National Park in Assam, India, has the world's largest populations of one-horned rhinos and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The park has been hit by poachers going after rhino horn to send to China, but it also sends rhinos to other parks in India. Kazaringa, recently featured in National Geographic, is off the tourist track because it's in the remote eastern province of Assam. You ride on elephant on safari to see wild elephants, tigers,barasinghs (swamp deer), sambas, panther, civet, baur, wild buffalo, sloth bear.

Kumbalgarh Widllife Sanctuary

Only a few thousand Indian wolves (Canis lupus pallipes) are left. Kumbalgarh Wildlife Sanctuarymay be one of the best places to see them. Udaipur tourist officials claim they're easy to spot: "This sanctuary inhabits more than forty wolves in number. In the summers, one can easily find pack of wolves strolling around water sources in the sanctuary."
Wolf.org has an incredible paper describing the difference among three sub-species and map of where they live. (The main group is mainly in western India and Pakistan. A Himalayan subspecies is up by Nepal and Tibet. A wolf-dog version is in and around Kasmir.)

Chikla Lake

Chilka Lake is a huge migratory bird stop and one of the few places the critically endangered Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) lives. The local tourist board says the dolphin boat tours support about 500 families and are 95% successful. The lake includes the Nalbana Bird Sanctuary, where greater flamingos, sea eagles, storks, pelicans and waterfowl visit.

Neelankarai Beach- India-Oliver Ridley Sea Turtle

One of the few places in the world you can see Oliver Ridley Sea Turtles is this stretch of beach around Neelankarai beach. The Tree Foundationworks with local students, who patrol the beaches to protect the turtles and eggs.
Tree Foundation No. 63, Ist Avenue, Vettuvankeni, Chennai – 600 041, India.
Tel: +91-44-24492242

Giant Squirrel Sanctuary

The Giant Srivilliputhur Squirrel Sanctuary has most of the last population of 300 black and white Grizzled Giant Squirrels(Ratufa macroura). So, it's also known as the Grizzled Giant Squirrel Sanctuary. See pictures of the big (3 kg ) squirrel atARKive.

Papau, Indonesia

The Raja Ampat Islands in Papau, Indonesia, are supposed to have the largest number of leatherback turtle nests in the Pacific. Save Our Leatherbacks Operation believes the islands have less than 1,000 nesting turtles left. SOLO leads trips for divers to live aboard a boat. The area also has eco lodges.

Jigokudani Snow Monkeys

Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) yaenkoen accomodates the nothernmost monkeys in he world by offering them a natural hot spring. The Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the Snow Monkey or saru, keep warm in the hot springs in the winter. BluePlanetBiomes says the monkeys live in four spots in Japan: Honshu's Shimokita Peninsula in the northwest; the Nagano Mountains near  the Shiga Kogen volcano; the island of Oshima, just off the Hanto Peninsula and the subtropical island of Yaku-Shima, which has the most.  The Jigokudani Monkey Park is the easiest way to see them. Zeno's Guide has useful monkey-watching tips.
located in the valley of Yokoyu-River that flowing from Shigakogen area of the northern part of Nagano-Prefecture.

Okayama Salamander Festival

Okayama has famous spring water and a river that is home to a rare, protected HUGE salamander.The village of Yubara Onsen holds the Hanzaki Festival every August 8 at 3 pm,AltJapan says. Giant salamander floats travel down the street. You'll have a harder time seeing the real thing, even though they can grow to five feet.

Yaku-shima

Yaku-shima is like Japan's Florida. This southern island is the most tropical in Japan and has tons of plants and wildlife.   While the cold mountains of Japan are more famous for their macaques, more actually live here--about 7,000, according to the visitor's guide. The Yakuzaru (Yakushima Monkey) is smaller and bushier than other Japanese monkeys. Yakushika (Yakushima deer) are also smaller. Look for them both along the 13 km. long Seibu-rindo Forest Path, says the official guide. It's also an important birding area.

Nagata Inaka-hama Beach on Yaku-shima Island, Japan, is a major nesting spot for endangered Loggerhead and green turtles. It's the biggest nesting site in the north Pacific for the Loggerheads with 4,000 nests in 2005. The 100-some tourists that come out to see them every night have become a problem, the Daily Yomiuri reports. The group Yakushima Umigame Kan protects them. Turtles lay eggs April - July and they hatch July - September. Yoronto Island near Okinawa and Chichijima Island are other important Japanese turtle nesting areas.

Shikoku Island

The island of Shikoku has whale cruises from many of its fishing ports.  Whaleroute reports this schedule: Humpback (Feb - April) Yearround: spinner and bottlenose dolphin Sperm whale (summer - autumn)

Nara Deer

The city of Nara, near Osaka, has turned its population of sika deer into a tourist attraction. The deer roam everywhere, eat anything and have learned to bow to visitors, the LA Times reports. Vendors and vending machines sell "deer courtesy crackers" (鹿煎餅 Shika-senbei) to feed the deer and outdoor restaurants give diners biscuits to pay the deer not to molest them. The deer literally were considered a sacred gift from the gods and people were put to death for killing them. Now they are officially a national treasure. About 1200 roam the city park. They have an annual Shika Tsuno Kiri festival to trim the deer's horns.

Kerama Islands

Humpback whales breed around the Kerama islands in early spring. You may see them from shore on Tokashiki-jima or Zamami-jima Islands. Zamami has plenty of tour boats, too.

Ogasawara Islands

You can only get to the Ogasawara Islands by taking a 25-hour ferry from Tokyo. But once you get here, you have a 90% chance of seeing humpback whales. From February to April, you can see humpbacks from land. Sperm whales are seen in summer and fall. Dolphin swims year-round.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has the world's largest wolf population, about 90,000, despite decades of hunting them for bounties. Its biggest nature reserve is Altyn-Emel National Park
Bonus species: Siberian mountain goats (teke), desert deer (jeran), kulan, mountain ram, wolv, fox, eagle.

Maldives

The Maldives just declared three areas of the southern atoll protected for Whale Sharks: the coral reefs and waters in and around Baa atoll Hanifaru and An'gafaru, and South Ari atoll Maamigili. In general whale sharks are seen year round on the outer edges of South Ari Atoll (also called Alif or Alufu Atoll). The Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme  is studying the local whale sharks and promoting their safety--against the backdrop of their being caught for Asian fish markets. The program takes volunteers regularly.

Ras Al Jinz, Oman

Ras Al Jinz in Oman is one of the best places in the world to see green turtles, which enjoy a protected area nearly 100 miles long. The facility has an elegant restaurant and hotel. Others camp nearby, out of range of the turtles. +968 96 55 06 06

Arabian Leopards, Oman

Only about 100 Arabian leopards are left in Oman because of poaching and pest control. You can go on a $2,200 expedition to look for the cats with the Omani Diwan of Royal Court.

Elk Island, Moscow

Losiny Ostrov "Elk Island" National Park (Национальный парк "Лосиный Остров") in Moscow was named after European elk (moose) and also has red deer (elk), theMoscow News reports. 
Bonus species: wild boar, red squirrel (especially in Tsaritsyno near Orekhovo metro station where dogs are banned. Also try Kuzminki, Izmailovsky and Pokrovsko-Streshnevo parks) and beaver (the marsh area near Mytischi) 

Kostroma Moose Farm

The Kostroma Moose Farm (ЛОСИНАЯ ФЕРМА) is trying to prove that moose can thrive as domestic animals--as long as they are allowed to roam free part of the year. Russians have been experimenting with using moose as military animals and livestock for ages. This farm started in 1963 and has had many missions and government bosses. The current purpose is quite gentle: the moose are milked, studied and let wander, tracked by GPS. Tourists can visit in the summer, when they aren't a danger to vulnerable calves. Guided tours are about $5. (+7 4942) 35 94 33 It's less than 200 miles from Moscow.

Solovetsky Island

Gibbon Rehabilitation Project

The Gibbon Rehabilitation Project returns gibbons who have been kept as pets to the wild after teaching them to survive. Ton Sai and Bang Pae is located in Khao Phra Thaeo National Park 22 kilometers north of Phuket Town on the way to the airport