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Pandas have long been a mainstay at the National Zoo, ever since the first pair arrived from China as part of a diplomatic program in 1972, but the last panda family was sent back to China in 2023 ...
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 ]
One of four panda bears at Zoo Atlanta rests in their habitat on Dec. 30, 2023, in Atlanta. The zoo's giant panda bear agreement with China expires in late 2024, and plans are underway for Lun Lun ...
Bao Li, the male panda, eats bamboo leaves during the public debut of the giant pandas at the National Zoo on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Washington.
Later, Beijing loaned pandas to other U.S. zoos, with proceeds going back to panda conservation programs. When U.S-China relations began to sour in recent years, members of the Chinese public ...
Back in November, the National Zoo in Washington returned three pandas to China as part of a more than 50-year-old legacy, leaving Georgia's Zoo Atlanta as the only one in the U.S. with a giant ...
San Diego Zoo returned its last two pandas to China in 2019, after its loan agreement ended. China loans pandas to more than 20 countries under a program often referred to as “panda diplomacy.”
The four Atlanta pandas have been the last in the United States since the National Zoo in Washington returned three pandas to China last November. Other American zoos have sent pandas back to ...