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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.
The only natural habitat for Giant Pandas is located in China. That makes them valuable in more ways than one. Wilder said Chinese officials wield access to pandas to advance their agenda.
HONG KONG — Some of the last giant pandas in the United States are heading back to China.. The National Zoo announced last month that its three pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their 3-year ...
China has lent its beloved bears to zoos in various countries over the years as goodwill animal ambassadors and also fostered a modern Sino-U.S. "panda diplomacy" with the gesture.
The National Zoo has announced its three giant pandas—Tian Tian, Mei Xiang, and Xiao QI Ji—will head back to China in early December after attempts to renew the three-year contract failed.
Pandas have served as something of an unofficial barometer of China-US relations since 1972, when Beijing gifted a pair of the bears to the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. following ...
China has agreed to a 10-year lease of the pandas, which will run through April 2034. The zoo will pay the Chinese government $1 million a year to display the pandas.