Yes Panda News is One today.

What a year it's been, lots of panda cubs born after the horrific earthquake on may 12th.
More and more zoos are trying to obtain pandas and help in their breeding.
My wonderful trip to Bifengxia where I got to look after pandas and see them close hand.

In the coming year there are lots of pandas who were mated in May, and will shortly be due to give birth. Will it be a record year?

Now a little bit of a sneak peak at the new Panda News site.

A new site you ask. Yes. Currently Panda News is hosted by blogger at google, whilst this has been excellent to get the site started, there is so much more I would like to do with it that is not possible to do on Blogger.

I was hoping to have the new site ready to go live today on our first birthday, but I've not been able to get it ready in time, but It's nearly there so instead of going live I'll show a couple of screenshots of the new site.

The new site will still be bringing you the latest news about out beloved Giant Pandas, but you will be able to look up information about the pandas and locations which are featured in the news story.

As part of the celebration for our first birthday, I would like to thank you our loyal reader for your part in this site, many thanks. and even more thanks to those of you that have sent in stories and pictures, and corrected me when I got some details not quite right.

So grab a piece of birthday cake in one hand, and your favourite drink in the others and raise a toast to our wonderful pandas for being there so we can enjoy them together.

Andi