In June, Schoenbrunn Zoo and the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation on giant panda protection and related research. Under the agreement, a new pair of pandas will be sent to the zoo under a 10-year project after Yang Yang and Yua...
CHENGDU, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Three Belgium-born pandas arrived in the city of Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Wednesday morning. Upon their arrival, the three pandas -- Tian Bao, Bao Di and Bao Mei -- were sent to the China Conservation and Research Center for the Gian...
In November, the National Zoo in Washington sent three pandas back to China. Now, Zoo Atlanta is the only U.S. zoo with a giant panda program. The agreement for Zoo Atlanta’s four pandas ends this year. This mea...
Washington's National Zoo is preparing to welcome a pair of new giant pandas by the end of the year about six months after it sent its three pandas back to China. The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute was previously home to Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, who were on...
In June, Schoenbrunn Zoo and the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation on giant panda protection and related research. Under the agreement, a new pair of pandas will be sent to the zoo under a 10-year project after Yang Yang and Yua...
Washington's National Zoo is preparing to welcome a pair of new giant pandas by the end of the year about six months after it sent its three pandas back to China. The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute was previously home to Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, who were on...
The cooperation between the China Wildlife Conservation Association and the zoo dates back to 1996 when Bai Yun and Shi Shi from the research center became the first pair of pandas to live in the zoo. Giant pandas Hua Mei, born in 1999, and Mei Sheng, born in 2003, who formerly lived ...
In 1966, pandas made international news once more after China sent Chi-Chi and An-An to the Moscow Zoo to get the bears to breed. Panda populations in China were dwindling, and part of the hopes ofsending pandas abroad for breedingwas a way to conserve the species, which, in the 1980...
San Diego Zoo in 2007, and the grandson of Bai Yun, who lived at the zoo for more than 20 years. Then-27-year-old Bai Yun and her son, Xiao Liwu, San Diego Zoo's last two giant pandas, were sent back to China in 2019 as the zoo's last conservation agreement with China ended....
Da Mao and Er Shun, two pandas sent to Calgary Zoo in Canada in 2014, are being sent back to China two years ahead of schedule. The animals feed on fresh bamboo, (1)___is especially flown in for them from China. Some joked that the pandas are "leading too luxurious a life". But...