Basi, the world’s oldest giant panda in captivity, died at Fuzhou Panda World in China’s Fujian Province on September 13, 2017. Basi passed away at the age of 37 — more than 100 years in human years. Chinese State television reported live on Thursday from the the Straits Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center / […]

Basi, the world’s oldest captive panda with a celebrity status among the endangered species, celebrated her 37th birthday on Wednesday, equivalent to more than 100 human years in east China’s Fujian Province. Basi, born in 1980, is the oldest, and possibly the most famous, panda on the Chinese mainland. In 1990, she was chosen as […]

Basi, the panda who rose to fame as the prototype for Pan Pan, the mascot of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing in 1990, celebrated her 35th birthday － the equivalent of more than 100 human years － on Saturday at Fuzhou Panda World in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province. Fuzhou has been her […]

Fuzhou Panda World and the other panda centers have been working on establishing a Giant Panda blood bank in order to have blood to treat pandas suffering from severe anemia, diseases, loss of blood from a fight or, like humans, blood transfusion treatment. On these pictures experts at Fuzhou Panda World are showing the process […]

Fu Fu was transfered from Fuzhou Panda World to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on February 16, 2012. Fu Fu’s going away cake was decorated with seven bamboo sticks, six heart-shaped apple slices and two small pandas that represented, respectively, his 7 years in Fuzhou, the six keepers who took care of […]