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Two giant pandas will soon make their way from China to San Diego, California. Imminent new additions Yun Chuan and Xin Bao can be seen in an adorable video and photos released by San Diego Zoo.
According to Xinhua, discussions are ongoing for “a new round of cooperation” with the National Zoo and a zoo in Austria. Fewer than 2,000 giant pandas remain in the wild, according to the ...
People come to the zoo to see the pandas. Full stop. For decades, the National Zoo was the only place to see pandas in America. As I child, I went to see the original pair of D.C. pandas, Ling ...
The San Diego Zoo also operates the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly the San Diego Wild Animal Park), a nearly 2000-acre park located 30 miles northeast of the Zoo near Escondido, which features animals in more expansive, open areas than the zoo's urban 100 acres can provide. Exhibits are themed mainly around Asia, Africa, and Australia ...
But signs at the zoo and on its social media site have heralded the planned return of the pandas and panda-themed merchandise still dominates the gift shops. “The giant pandas are an iconic part of the Washington, D.C., story, both for locals and incoming travelers alike,” said Elliott L. Ferguson, II, president and CEO of Destination DC.
When U.S-China relations began to sour in recent years, members of the Chinese public started to demand the return of giant pandas. Unproven allegations that U.S. zoos mistreated the pandas, known as China’s “national treasure,” flooded China’s social media. The National Zoo said the pandas coming to Washington are:
Adult male giant panda at the San Diego Zoo in 2004. 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]
The zoo’s 24-hour Giant Panda Cam has garnered more than 100 million page views since its launch in 2000. It went offline last November, when Mei Xiang, Tiantian and their youngest cub Xiao Qi ...