text:  So captive breeding became a smashing success. But pandas in the wild also needed help. Dr. Mel Songer is a conservation biologist for the National Zoo, and she says that improving the panda's habitat is still the number one most important thing. Because individual panda populations can be really small and isolated. That's why, you know, increasing connectivity and increasing the amount of habitat that's there. So if you think about you've got your 20 pandas in your small area population,