CCRCGP announced that giant panda Peng Peng died on December 17, 2017. Peng Peng had cataract surgery in November 2011, but poor postoperative visual acuity. At the end of November 2017, Peng Peng showed secondary epilepsy at the Du Jiang Yan Base of CCRCGP. After that, his mental appetite deteriorated. Sudden coma with neurological symptoms […]

The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda has celebrated the birth of a record 42 panda cubs this year. The 42 cubs were born to 30 mothers. The 17 born at the Ya’an Bifengxia base made their debut Friday. The others met the public at the Wolong Geng Da base. “The number […]

Update by SNZP Giant Panda Keeper Marty Dearie. Source: Smithsonian’s National Zoo Bao Bao is settling in China at the Dujiangyan panda base. Our 16-hour direct flight aboard the FedEx Panda Express was smooth and Bao Bao did really well. She ate and slept the entire way to Chengdu, just as we expected. All the weeks of acclimating her […]

On October 20, 2016, Hua Yan and Zhang Meng were reintroduced in the wild one after another into the dense forest of Liziping Nature Reserve in Shimian County, Ya’an City to start their lives in the wild. Reintroducing the two female pandas at the same time into the wild is the first time multiple pandas have […]

Pandas International announced the names of the CCRCGP cubs born in 2014: Source: Pandas International