the 4th National Giant Panda Census in Foping
An Inspiring Good Start “Our team found fresh panda feces!” “We have seen wild pandas!” The 4th National Giant Panda Census was launched by the State Forestry Administration in October, 2011. Shanxi Province forestry officials initiated surveys of multiple areas of giant panda habitat at the same time. All surveyors were carefully trained to use […]
Giant Panda News Part 6
On February 6, 2014 during the 7th Annual 1 Made In Asia Festival held in Toulouse, France, Pambassador Jerome Pouille gave a lecture on giant pandas. He discussed French missionary Armand DavicTs discovery of the species, panda diplomacy, and the integrated conservation and development programs conducted by China and the World Wide Fund For Nature […]
Hao Hao and Xing Hui’s Belgium Arrival
On February 22 two giant pandas departed from Chengdu and traveled to Belgium where they will stay for 15 years in the Pairi Daiza Zoo. Both pandas are from the Bifengxia Panda Base. The male, Xing Hui, was born on July 22，2009, and the female, Hao Hao, on July 7,2009. The day the pandas left, […]
Welcome, Michelle Obama
On December 1, 2013, Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States, delivered a televised speech celebrating the first 100 days of a giant panda cub born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The cub was named Bao Bao, which means “precious treasure”. In her speech, Mrs. Obama touched upon the panda […]
Observation on Tourists at the Chengdu Panda Base
It was an extraordinary opportunity for me to have a 5-day experience living and working with giant pandas, a creature known as one of Chinas national treasures. Through these days of being animal keeper and camper in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding I learned so much. Not only did the experience expand […]
Pandas: No Joke
For most of my 16 years I held a rather low opinion of the giant panda as a species. After learning a few things about pandas, I judged them to be a failure in God’s creation that Were poorly adapted to nature. I often preached this rather shallow theory to others, feeling as though it […]
Giant Panda: It’s not Always Black and White
The popular perception is that giant pandas are only black and white, yet they can sometimes be various color phases, including brown and white. Several of these brown and white pandas were found in Shaanxi’s Foping National Nature Reserve. First sighting of a brown and white panda On the morning of 26 March 1985,1 traveled […]
A Red Panda: Xiao Bai’s Story
Xiao Bai is usually the second one to come forward when I enter her enclosure. I smile each time I see her, the way one does when seeing an old friend or a relative coming down the road, but she always seems a little reluctant when she approaches me. She is not entirely certain of […]
Playing Panda Matchmaker
Giant panda cubs are adorable, fuzzy balls of black and white fur. Zoo visitors regularly flock to catch a glimpse of these rarely seen animal stars. But when Jon I Ballou, from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, and Kathy Traylor-Holzer, from the IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group see panda cubs, they see them as […]
Giant Panda Zoo Awards
On January 17，2014, the winners of the annual Giant Panda Zoo Awards were revealed at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The Giant Panda Zoo Awards are organized by www.GiantPanda- Zoo.com, a website about captive giant pandas around the world, to promote giant panda conservation work both in and outside of China. From December […]