pandas

Hong Kong launches panda sculpture tour as the city hopes the bear craze boosts tourism

3:58am December 02, 2024

Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and Wu Minglu, secretary general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, hold up an agreement to lease giant pandas for the San Francisco Zoological Society and Gardens during a signing ceremony in Beijing on Friday.

The San Francisco Zoo will receive a pair of pandas from China

11:45am April 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing's famed "panda diplomacy."

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gives a toast to invited guests after delivering a speech at a reception for Commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of China-U.S. Diplomatic Relations in Beijing on Friday.

China promises pandas for the U.S. on the 45th anniversary of the two nations' ties

12:28pm January 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and promised that giant pandas would return to the U.S. — specifically California — by year end.

Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji plays at his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington in September.

More pandas will be coming to the U.S., China's president signals

8:55am November 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

After meeting with President Biden in California, President Xi Jinping signaled that he will send new pandas to the U.S., calling them "envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples."

This photo taken at the Qinling Giant Panda Research Center, shows newly born twin panda cubs, male at left and female at right, in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province.

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Panda twins are born in China as the species struggles for survival

9:00am August 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

The male and female cubs, born Tuesday at the Qinling Panda Research Center in Shaanxi province, are the second pair of twins born to their mother, Qin Qin.

A Giant panda enjoys bamboo at the Beijing Zoo during the first day of the public display on June 5, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Finally Some Good News! China Says Giant Pandas Are No Longer Endangered

4:12pm July 09, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

The announcement comes five years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature officially removed giant pandas from its endangered list.

Tian Tian receives laser therapy treatment during a full veterinary exam.

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National Zoo Panda Tian Tian Gets Checkup For Weight Loss And Sore Shoulder

9:12am November 17, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Veterinarians performed laser treatment and acupuncture for what they initially thought was a touch of arthritis in the panda's left shoulder.

Pan Pan sniffs a birthday cake made of ice for his 30th birthday, at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Dujiangyan, on Sept. 21, 2015.

'Panda Grandpa' Pan Pan Dies In China

4:23pm December 30, 2016

by Maggie Penman

Pan Pan, who died this week at the age of 31, was known as the "panda grandpa": He has some 130 descendants worldwide, accounting for a quarter of the world's captive giant pandas.

Bao Bao has been living separately from her mother, Mei Xiang, since March 2015.

Bye-Bye, Bao Bao: Popular Giant Panda Heads To China This Winter

11:59am October 20, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The National Zoo's giant pandas are on loan from China, and the agreement requires that any pandas born in D.C. be sent to China before they turn 4. It'll soon be time for Bao Bao to make the journey.

A proof-of-life photo of the panda Tuan Tuan was released by the Taipei Zoo on Facebook this week.

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Taipei Zoo Releases Proof-Of-Life Photo Of Panda Rumored To Be Dead

11:34am May 18, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Chinese newspapers have reported that 11-year-old Tuan Tuan died of distemper. Not so, the Taipei Zoo says — releasing photos of the panda, complete with recent newspapers, as evidence.