All posts tagged "Giant Pandas"

After years of charming millions of people around the world with their furry bodies and clumsy antics, foreign-born giant pandas are adapting to new lives in China.

The fluffy envoys are loaned to overseas zoos as part of Beijing’s “panda diplomacy”, with the offspring returned to China within a few years of their birth to join breeding programmes.

And as they sit among leafy surrounds in conservation centres in southwest China chomping on bamboo, they are oblivious to their diplomatic roles — or the crucial part they could play in saving their species from extinction....

By Will Dunham

Britain's only giant pandas failed to mate during their 36-hour window of opportunity, Edinburgh Zoo said Thursday.

LONDON — The two giant pandas living at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland were removed from public view this weekend after falling ill with colic, a zoo spokeswoman said on Sunday.

BEIJING (AFP) – Ming Ming, the world's oldest panda, has died of old age, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. She was 34.