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In the 1970s, gifts of giant pandas to American and Japanese zoos formed an important part of the diplomacy of the People's Republic of China (PRC), as it marked some of the first cultural exchanges between China and the West. This practice has been termed "panda diplomacy". [115] By 1984, however, pandas were no longer given as gifts.
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.
The San Diego Zoo had Giant Pandas on-loan from China from 1996–2019 as part of the breeding program that successfully boosted the Giant Panda from "endangered" to "vulnerable." [ 57 ] The agreement for the San Diego Zoo to house the breeding pair of Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu ended in 2019, and the pandas returned on 27 April 2019. [ 58 ]
Wearing an “I Love Pandas” T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. “It felt completely amazing,” Kelsey, age 10 ...
Other American zoos have sent pandas back to China as loan agreements lapsed amid heightened diplomatic tensions between the two nations. One of four panda bears at Zoo Atlanta rests in their ...
The Zoo Atlanta pandas, the last giant pandas remaining in the United States, were returned to China in late 2024. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Scholars, including Johns Hopkins University political economist Ho-fung Hung , have questioned whether a deterioration in US-China relations starting in the late 2010s brought an end to panda diplomacy between the ...
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 ...
Currently, the delisting of out-of-danger species in the United States is governed by the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). The law was enacted to prevent endangered species from becoming extinct and is jointly administered by the U.S Department of the Interior, the U.S Department of Commerce, and the U.S Department of Agriculture.