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[116] [117] As of 2022, Xin Xin at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, was the last living descendant of the gifted pandas. [ 118 ] Since 1998, because of a WWF lawsuit , the United States Fish and Wildlife Service only allows US zoos to import a panda if the zoo can ensure China channels more than half of its loan fee into conservation efforts ...
The National Zoo’s three giant pandas left Washington, D.C., early Wednesday and took off from Dulles on the specially-equipped FedEx Panda Express aircraft destined for Chengdu, China, their ...
In 2024, for the first time in more than 50 years, there will be no pandas in the United States, after zoos in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., return pandas that have been on loan from Beijing.
Hong Kong leader John Lee also expressed his gratitude to the central government for gifting the pandas to the financial hub in 2007, saying it showed Beijing's care and support for the city.
This is notably the case in the world Ocean where endangered species not seen for decades may go extinct unnoticed. [10] Internationally, 195 countries have signed an accord to create Biodiversity Action Plans that will protect endangered and other threatened species. In the United States, such plans are usually called Species Recovery Plans.
Tuan Tuan (right) and Yuan Yuan (left) chewing on bamboo in Wolong shortly after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The exchange of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.
The giant pandas at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are set to return to China in December 2023, per the terms of a partnership between the zoo and the country.
As of November 2019, the two female giant pandas who live at the zoo, Shuan Shuan (b. 1988) and Xin Xin (b. 1990), are the oldest Giant Pandas in captivity. [63] Shuan Shuan died in 2022, leaving Xin Xin as the last surviving panda in Mexico. [64] The pandas at Chapultepec are special in that China does not have ownership.