Panda News from around the world
  • Hikers re-walking David's way Find Giant Panda Evidence.

    140 years ago Pere Jean Pierre Armand David was the first westerner to see a Giant Panda. To celebrate 20 hikers have been following in his foot steps and retrace the route he took from Chengdu To Yaan.

    Along the route the hikers have been painstakingly searching for wild giant pandas, but did not see any. Though they have found evidence of the panda along the way.

    Even though giant pandas have poor eye sight, they do have excellent hearing and sense of smell, with which they can detect humans long before the humans can see them.
  • Jin Zhu not expecting

    In the first week I was volunteering in Bifengxia one of the pandas was showing signs of being pregnant so they gave her an ultrasound and it was deemed that she was with cub and due the week later, so a few days later she was moved to the breeding station to be watched around the clock. No baby came I have been told that she now has been moved back out of the breeding centre.
  • Panda Ambassador Huang Xiaoming Visits the Cubs

    On October 5th, 2008, the Panda Ambassador of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Mr. Huang Xiaoming takes a special trip to Ya'an Bifengxia Base and see the two cubs he adopted. He also takes a trailer for the two cubs for their 100-day celebration. Since the Wenchuan earthquake, Huang Xiaoming concerns the giant pandas at Wolong very much. When he learns that Guo Guo gave birth to a pair of twin cubs, he applies for adopting the cubs to the Research Center and does what he can for their healthy growth.
  • Taiwan zoo to get pandas in November

    Officials at Taiwan's biggest zoo said Wednesday they hoped to welcome a pair of giant pandas from rival China as early as November, a move expected to draw millions of tourists to the capital.

    Taipei's Mucha Zoo, which was chosen last month to house the endangered animals, has now applied for an import license to bring the pandas to Taiwan as soon as possible.

    "Considering the climate, November-December is the best season to move the two giant pandas here," zoo spokesman Chin Shih-chien told AFP.
  • New pandas at Bifengxia

    Zhu Yun, also gave birth whilst I was working at Bifengxia.

    At 14:27 and 19:07 of September 3, 2008, the captive giant panda Zhu Yun gives birth to two cubs. China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda has one more pair of twin cubs.
  • More panda cubs born at Chungdu

    I've received a report that 3 new baby pandas were born over the weekend. The report only provides information about a pair of pandas born to Chengji on Saturday and mentions another cub, but doesn't say who the mother is.

    Does anyone have anymore information? If so please send it in.
  • Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, closer to moving to Taiwan

    Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan the pandas chosen to move to Taiwan, have gotten one step closer to miving homes, after a panel of Taiwanese government experts chose the Mucha Zoo in Taipei to eventually house the pandas, over the private Leofoo Safari Park in northern Hsinchu county.

    The pair of pandas are seen to help reunite China and Taiwan.
  • Yay More panda babies

    On August 6th 2008 Cao cao gives birth to her first babies, a set of twins.
    Born with in 10 minutes of each other, and they both a good healthy size.
  • 4 More cubs

    4 Cubs with-in 14 hours, that must be some kind of record.

    A pair of female twins to Qiyuan, and a single cub each to Chenggong and Zhuzhu all at Chengdu
  • The case of the missing panda

    It looks like a panda cub that was born on the 13th of July to Ying ying, went without me noticing. Though Performing a google search didn't bring show him / her up.

    So now we have 5 Panda Cubs this year.
    I will update the Pandas Born in 2008 post.

    UPDATE
    Susan Langa sent us an Email about the missing Panda, (Many thanks Susan), she sent me the Press release, I have managed to find it on the Wolong Panda Club, website and added it to the References.
  • Panda couple's happy life at new home

    Some pictures of 'Tuan Tuan' and 'Yuan Yuan', the panda couple expected to be sent to Taiwan. Taken at Bifengxia where they moved to after the May 12th Quake left their previous home the Panda Breeding Centre in Wolong devastated.

    It appears to be that they have settled in quite well.