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May 2024

  • A two-year-old giant panda sits among logs and smiles at the camera

    Two giant pandas from China to arrive at US National Zoo

    Bao Li and Qing Bao will be the first pandas to reside at the Smithsonian zoo in Washington DC since last fall

March 2024

  • Panda diplomacy: meet the giant (and expensive) diplomats on loan to Australia from China - video

  • Giant pandas Wang Wang and Fu Ni

    How two giant pandas loaned to Adelaide zoo tell the story of the ups and downs of China-Australia relations

November 2022

  • Tuan Tuan being cared for by zoo staff

    Beloved giant panda given to Taiwan by China dies aged 18 after seizures

    Tuan Tuan, gifted to Taiwan 14 years ago when relations were warmer, allowed to ‘continue to sleep’ after being anaesthetised

July 2022

  • An An the panda at Ocean Park Hong Kong

    An An, world’s oldest captive male giant panda, dies in Hong Kong zoo aged 35

    Thousands send condolences after zoo staff euthanise panda, who was in poor health and had stopped eating

September 2021

  • Panda 'twerks' around pen to prepare for rare mating event at Adelaide zoo – video

  • Giant panda at Madrid’s Zoo Aquarium gives birth to twins – video

July 2021

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    Giant pandas no longer endangered in the wild, China announces

    Authorities reclassify animal as vulnerable with a population outside captivity of 1,800

February 2021

  • Giant pandas play in the Washington DC snow – video

    Giant pandas at the Smithsonian's national zoo enjoyed the cold weather in the US capital by rolling and sliding around in the snow in their enclosure

December 2020

  • The six-month-old giant panda cub, Yuan Bao, and her mother, Yuan Yuan, at Taipei Zoo.

    Second Taiwan-born giant panda cub makes media debut

    Around 150 journalists watched as Yuan Bao (Round Baby) clambered over climbing frame and played with sawdust

August 2020

  • Pandas chew bamboo

    Panda conservation efforts failed to protect other mammals – study

    Animals including leopards have almost disappeared in protected habitats

May 2020

  • FILE - In this May 7, 2018 file photo shows Da Mao, an adult male panda bear, looks on as media photograph him at the Calgary Zoo during the opening of its giant panda habitat, Panda Passage, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The zoo has decided to send two adult giant pandas back to China because the coronavirus epidemic has disrupted essential deliveries of fresh bamboo. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

    Canada's Calgary zoo to return two giant pandas after bamboo supply disruption

    Scarcity of flights due to coronavirus pandemic has caused problems with getting enough bamboo to feed them

April 2020

  • Ying Ying and Le Le

    Hong Kong's pandas mate for first time in decade in privacy of coronavirus lockdown

    Captive animals had previously shown little inclination to mate, and scientists are hopeful it may result in pregnancy

December 2019

  • Male panda Yang Guang in the panda’s enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo.

    Failed million-pound bid for Scottish panda ‘has been a disgrace’

    Edinburgh zoo stays silent on prospect of a final bid to produce cubs before Tian Tian and Yang Guang return to China

October 2019

  • Critics say dyeing the chow chows to resemble panda cubs could damage their skin.

    Chinese cafe featuring dogs dyed to look like pandas facing backlash

    ‘I suggest dyeing cafe owner black and white,’ says one critic over stunt in Chengdu

September 2019

  • The panda twins who were born to Meng Meng in Berlin last week

    Hong and Kong? Berlin's panda cubs at centre of Chinese human rights row

  • Two newborn pandas at Berlin zoo

    Berlin zoo celebrates rare birth of panda twins

March 2018

  • A giant panda cub eats bamboo sprouts at a research centre in Ya’an, Sichuan

    Chinese panda park to be twice the size of Yellowstone

    National park will bolster local economy while providing animals with unbroken habitat

January 2018

  • France's baby panda makes its first public appearance – video

    France's five-month-old panda made its public debut, delighting hundreds of visitors as it crawled, tumbled and cuddled with its mother

December 2017

  • Panda cub growls and jumps at France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron – video

    The ceremony at the Beauval zoo, south of Paris, was an important diplomatic moment, but the four-month-old male cub decided otherwise, making a growling sound and jumping towards Macron when she put her hand over a glass wall to pet the panda

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