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In 1984, China shifted from panda gifts to a policy of high-priced loans. However, Mexico has retained ownership of the locally born pandas since their lineage traces to the gifted panda couple. [citation needed] In 1980, Pe Pe and Ying Ying had Xen Li, the first panda born outside China, however, she did not survive into adulthood.
That loan agreement for the zoo's four pandas expires this year, which meant there would be no pandas in the U.S. for the first time since 1972 when the Chinese government presented two giant ...
San Diego’s newest giant pandas landed in California on Thursday, according to Chinese state media – marking the first time Beijing has granted new panda loans to the United States in two decades.
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.
Initially on loan for ten years as part of a global giant panda breeding program, [14] Wang Wang and Fu Ni are the only giant pandas in the Southern Hemisphere. [8] A large amount of media attention was given to their arrival, [10] and the loan has been described as an instance of "panda diplomacy" between Australia and China. [4] [5]
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]
From there, the two pandas were trucked to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, where they will remain on loan for 10 years, with an annual fee of $1 million to support conservation efforts in China.
The pandas typically return home to southwest China after the loan agreement ends. Panda cubs born overseas are no exception, and would be sent home between the age of two and four to join a ...