The Chinese Used to Think Pandas Were Monsters
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen describes the shift in Chinese views of pandas from metal-eating...
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China Swaps Pandas for Uranium in Trade Deals
A report from CNN Money surveys the countries that China has loaned giant pandas to and the...
“Why I Hate Pandas and You Should Too”
While the newborn panda cub at Washington’s National Zoo appears to be healthy after a...
China’s Live, 24-Hour Panda Cam
The Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report draws attention to the Chengdu Panda Base’s newly-launched 24-hour “Panda Cam” website: iPanda.com: China’s Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda...
Pandas Survive Quake, But Some Face Other Threats
Xinhua reports that the 61 giant pandas at the Bifengxia breeding center were not physically harmed by the 6.6Mw earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 193 and injuring over 12,000: According to the video...
China’s “Bio-Google” Hunts for Roots of Genius
At The Wall Street Journal, Gautam Naik details one of Chinese gene-sequencing firm BGI’s current projects: a search for the genetic roots of exceptional intelligence, conducted together with Robert Plomin at King’s...
Inside China’s Genome Factory
At MIT Technology Review, Christina Larson profiles the world’s most prolific DNA sequencer, BGI-Shenzhen, which has unravelled the genomes of the rice plant and the giant panda, contributed to the international Human...
Chinese Panda Census Offers Hope as Sunshine and Sweetie Fly In
Conservation efforts are expected to have had an impact on the population numbers of giant pandas in China, as researchers conduct a census of the endangered and beloved creatures. Edinburgh, Scotland is preparing to receive a...
Bad Panda News: World’s Oldest “Kicks Bucket”, While Scottish Loan In Doubt
The world’s oldest panda, born in 1977, has died, reports Global Times: According to the news from the China Panda Protection Center in Sichuan Province, the 34-year-old Ming Ming, the oldest panda in the world, has died,...
Pandas Come With Strings Attached
At The Guardian, Henry Nicholls examines China’s cultivation of the giant panda as cultural capital, and the terms under which foreign zoos are allowed to take them in. Although Li Keqiang described the pair heading for...
Panda Bears to Britain; Panda Cows to China
Li Keqiang’s visit to the UK this week bore not only business deals amounting to £2.6 billion ($4 billion), but an agreement for two giant pandas to be sent to Edinburgh Zoo. From The Guardian: The pair of seven-year-old...
Giant Panda Tai Shan Lands Corporate Sponsorship from Chinese Automaker
To follow-up on yesterday’s farewell to the beloved panda Taishan from the National Zoo in Washington, today he landed in China, and landed a corporate sponsorship. From the Washington Post: In a deal negotiated over the...
A Farewell to Charms: Panda Taishan Returns to China
The hottest news in Washington is not rising tensions between China and the U.S., or even the economy, but the return of the beloved panda Taishan from the National Zoo to China. The Washington Post has special coverage...
New Panda Preserves Suggested
A new study using satellite imagery examines the impact of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake on the panda reserves in the region. The New York Times reports: In one of the hardest hit areas, the southern part of the Minshan Mountains,...
Taipei Zoo Seeks Correction on Panda Prank Story
From China National News: A furious Taipei Zoo Friday demanded that a newspaper run a correction over an April Fool’s Day prank that claimed two pandas from China were disguised forest bears. ‘Using their...
Wild Pandas Further Threatened in Earthquake’s Aftermath
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that lingering threats to the welfare of South China’s wild pandas could intensify, in the wake of May’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan province. The damage caused by the...
Boost for China Panda Population
From BBC News: Four giant panda cubs have been born within 14 hours in China, boosting the population of the endangered species. The cubs were born at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre in south-west Sichuan province,...
Quake Panda Gives Birth to Twins in China
From AFP: A giant panda evacuated after China’s devastating earthquake in May gave birth to twins on Sunday, state media reported. Guo Guo, who was relocated from the Wolong Panda Breeding Centre following the earthquake...
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