This week's announcement by China's environmental ministry is the first time the animal's status was changed on its own endangered species list ... likely to starve. Zoos have also attempted ...

A pair of giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo less than a year after the Washington zoo sent Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China.

The list of famous zoo animals goes on. What is it about them ... Xiao Qi Ji and his parents Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, returned to China as part of a three-year contract with the China Wildlife ...

Bao Li is a descendant of Bao Bao, who was born in D.C. in 2013 and lived there through 2017. All giant pandas born at the National Zoo return to China at 4 years old as part of a breeding program ...

Giant pandas leave US National Zoo to return to China amid uncertainty about future exchanges - Two giant pandas and their ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — While many are eagerly awaiting the public debut of the two new pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — at the National Zoo ... a long list of issues, from the South China ...

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be ... that newly caught animals be released once they have recovered. The forestry bureau did not answer a list of questions but ...

National Zoo officials won’t reveal ... longer an ”endangered” species. In 2021, China downgraded them to “vulnerable” on its list of animals facing extinction. As an intern in the ...

Zoo Atlanta has worked with China since the mid-1990s on research ... During the 50 years of panda exchanges, the animal has ...

The National Zoo’s two new giant pandas, who arrived Tuesday after an 8,000-mile flight from China, will now settle into their new home before going on display.

Two giant pandas arrived at a Washington airport Tuesday morning less than a year after the National Zoo said goodbye to another pair of pandas that were on loan from China. The new pandas — B ...

Yet U.S. zoos clamor for pandas, and China eagerly provides ... that newly caught animals be released once they have recovered. The forestry bureau did not answer a list of questions but said ...