Panda News from around the world
  • Breeding Season Starts in Ya'an

    On March 14th 2010 Fei Fei and Lu Lu, in the new breeding ground at Bifengxia completed a successful mating.

    Fei Fei has been bleating and playing in water plus other signs that she was coming in to estrus. Researchers that she and Lu Lu would be a good match for an offspring to ensure a continued mix of genes. The pair were introduced and mated successfully.

    Lets hope that in the following days and weeks many more matings take place and a bumper crop and panda cubs will be produced this year.
  • Bifengxia Class of 2009

    The cubs of 2009 at Bifengxia base have all been weaned from their mothers and will be going in to the base's Kindergarten.

    A special ceremony was held to mark the occassion.
  • New Panda Cub at Bifengxia

    Ying Ying has given birth to a female cub weighing 158.5g at Bifengxia near Ya'an.

    Well done to Ying Ying and all staff at BFX.

    Come on Chengdu, where are your cubs this year. I hope everything is ok and the pandas are just a little late giving birth.
  • Mei Sheng may become a daddy.

    According to Sichuan Forestry Department's website, Mei Sheng Mated Naturally On May 8.

    On May 8 at 9:28 am, 5-year-old male panda Mei Sheng and female panda Ying Ying mated naturally. This is Mei Sheng's first natural mating and it lasted 1 minute and 41 seconds.
  • Alice's trip pic of the day - 15th Dec

    This is me trying to take a pic of Mei Sheng munching on the bamboo but as soon as i appeared he expected apples, which he absolutely loved and would've eaten all day long if allowed so he moved as i took the picture
  • Alice's trip pic of the day - 13th Dec

    This i think is an adorable picture of Mei Sheng, I also think this is a rather precarious position for such heavy animals, but he seemed very comfortable. Mei Sheng spent a long time up in his tree, he would only really come down at feeding time.[ I read somewhere that the pandas that come from the USA spend more time up trees that the Chinese born pandas (Andi)]
  • Alice's trip pic of the day - 10th Dec

    Unlike Andi and the other volunteers i was not in Leopard Mountain, i was in the private area that was not open to the public where the Pandas from Wolong were temporary living, the area that took Andi four weeks to find![It was only 3, and I did find the place just Mei Sheng who was hiding from me! (Andi)] I had the great pleasure of looking after Mei Sheng and this is him in his favourite place, up his tree, I have many pics of him in various poses, looking rather precarious, i'm not sure how the branches did not break off.
  • Alice's trip pic of the day - 10th Dec

    Unlike Andi and the other volunteers i was not in Leopard Mountain, i was in the private area that was not open to the public where the Pandas from Wolong were temporary living, the area that took Andi four weeks to find![It was only 3, and I did find the place just Mei Sheng who was hiding from me! (Andi)] I had the great pleasure of looking after Mei Sheng and this is him in his favourite place, up his tree, I have many pics of him in various poses, looking rather precarious, i'm not sure how the branches did not break off.
  • Trip Pic of the day (Nov 29)

    This panda who is feeling rather sorry for him self is Mei Sheng. Yes the infamous panda from San Diego. We picked a bad day to visit as he had to be locked in his cage and did not think much to that. It wasn't till the last week I was there that I found out where he was. Though I had got close to his home a few times.