A month after their birth, the twins of Lou Sheng at Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Breeding and Research Centre in Zhouzhi County are doing well.

What more do I need to say, enjoy the pics.

Oh if you're wondering why the "Related Pandas" block on the right says Lou Lou, that's because that's another name Lou Sheng goes by.

What with pandas having multiple names, and multiple pandas having the same name, it does keep us on our toes here at Panda News, but we wouldn't have it any other way.

It has been reported that a giant panda at the Shaanxi Rare Wild Animals Rescue and Breeding Research Centre has given birth to twins a boy and a girl.

Lousheng was one of the first to be born by artificial insemination and the first to give birth the same way.

Lousheng was artificial inseminated with the sperm from two male pandas Sansan and Xiaoming.

I'm having problems finding these pandas in my stud book. Does any one have any more information?

The earthquake of May 12th 2008, is still causing problems for the giant panda programme in china.

The earthquake which caused the death of nearly 80,000 people, left large areas of bamboo forest underneath landslides of mud and rocks, rendered some bamboo groves inaccessible and reduced tourism to the sites which depend on it the most.

A feral cat was found dead in the playground of Cheng Gong, a panda at Chengdu Zoo. It seems that the cat had invaded the pandas territory and the panda had protected it's grounds.

The cat was found by keeper Yang Cheng in the afternoon of May 3rd, it appeared to of been bitten to death by the panda. It appears that Cheng Gong had not eaten any the cat and was just defending it's territory.

"The giant panda has a strong sense of territoriality. Either captive or wild pandas will defend their territory from intruders.” said Yang Cheng the pandas keeper.

The Chengdu Panda Base has a blog entry about an interview one of their leading members of staff had with the China News Service.

Follow the reference to read it.

Meng Youn'an a prestigous Chinese eye surgeon said that a follow up eye examination of an elderly giant panda Xiaoming proved the cataract that he removed on Decemebr 20th 2008 was successful.

Meng Youn'an has helped over 30,000 patients regain their sight, but the operation in December was the first time he ha helped a Giant Panda.

Though the removal of the cataract was a success he was unable to implant an artificial lens in Xiaoming's eye. Meng said "It seems pandas need a tailor made lens for them. We have contacted a foreign supplier to make it".

Yesterday morning, Arabian delegates to China visited the Base to see China’s national treasure, the giant panda, accompanied by associated personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the afternoon, they went to Sanxingdui Museum and Jinli Street.

Whilst I was working in the base news came through that two more pandas had been born.

Another pair of cubs was born in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on September 2 morning! The births have increased the Base's number of captive bread pandas to 82.

This time it's the five- year old prototype panda of the "Fuwa" Jingjing, one of the Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, become the mother.

The panda named "Kangkang" (also "Fuwa") delivered a twins respectively on the night of Sep. 1 and the morning of Sep. 2.

August 5, 2008 was a festive day when the Olympic torch “Lucky Cloud” began the Chengdu leg of the relay. Adding to the festivity and celebration was the birth of a set of giant panda twins delivered at the Chengdu base.