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On October 14th, 2008, Osram China Lighting Ltd. comes to China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) Ya'an Bifengxia Base and donates lamps to the center generously again. All the lamps are energy-saving. They are worth about 30,000 RMB in total. With the guide of Panda Club's employees, they visit the Panda Garden and have a close touch with a panda cub.
After the devastating earth quake on May 12th, Tourists to Wolong and Chengdu Research Centres fell. Whilst Wolong has been pretty much destroyed and will take some time before it is fully functional again Chengdu is reporting that tourists are returning and numbers are about the same as last year.
October is the golden month in the Base’s annual tourism season. During the 7-day national holiday (this year from September 29 to October 5), about 31,822 tourists from home and abroad visited the Base, engaging in an exploration of the panda’s life and its survival secrets.
Almost half of Hong Kong's aid package to help China's quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government said Sunday.
Scientists in China have finished mapping the genome of the giant panda, unlocking secrets about why they eat bamboo and have black circles around their eyes.
Researchers from Cardiff University were part of an international team which undertook the project, using the DNA of a panda from the Chengdu Giant Panda research base.
Wang Jun, a scientist at the Beijing Genomics Institute, said the work should help scientists to understand why pandas have so few cubs.
A special panda festival has kicked off in the Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.
Whilst I was away I missed the birth of little boy and girl pandas in Japan on the 13th of September
TOKYO (AFP) — A giant panda born and raised in western Japan has given birth to two cubs, a zoo official said Sunday.
Seven-year-old Rauhin gave birth to a female and a male cub early Saturday morning at the zoo where she has spent her whole life, becoming the first Japanese-born panda to breed.
"We are very pleased to see that a giant panda who was born in this zoo gave birth," Tomoko Kumakawa, spokeswoman for Adventure World in Wakayama prefecture, told AFP.
Born just after I arrived in china Lun lun's baby is doing well, after concerns soon after it was born.
Atlanta’s new panda cub is finally beginning to look like his parents.
The infant born Aug. 31 is now covered in the black and white fur typical to giant pandas. Panda babies are born hairless, pink and about the size of a stick of butter.
Atlanta’s cub now weighs more than 2 pounds, up from the 4 ounces he weighed at birth. Zookeepers expect him to open his eyes for the first time in the next few days.
Here's a wonderful blog entry about some enrichment item left with the pandas Bai Yun and baby Zhen Zhen.
The nights are getting cooler here in San Diego, and because of its location, the Giant Panda Research Station at the San Diego Zoo is coolest of all, literally and metaphorically. It’s always around ten degrees cooler here than up at the Zoo’s entrance and it stays cooler longer into the day because of the shade of the canyon walls, the trees, and the surrounding bamboo.
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.
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It appears that two pandas that left Wolong and set up home at Wuhan Zoo, didn't like all the comotion caused by the 10,000 visitors to the zoo during the nation's holiday and were given Chicken soup to help calm them down.
Three-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei were unsettled by the tens of thousands of visitors to Wuhan Zoo during last week's National holidays.
The pair, whose names mean "Hope" and "Greatness" in Chinese, began pacing restlessly around their enclosure, according to He Zhihua, their keeper.