Pandas have fueled the Japanese town of Shirahama’s tourism industry for decades. But the town’s zoo has to send its last ...

Three giant pandas left their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, and departed by plane back to China on Wednesday, marking the end of more than 50 years of Chinese pandas ...

But the four pandas at the town’s local zoo really belong to China, and China wants them back, leaving town residents in an ...

A Chinese research center has released new video images of the four giant pandas that were returned to the country from Japan ...

Thousands of fans in Japan have bid an emotional farewell to four giant pandas. The pandas, a mother and her three daughters, made their final public appearance on Friday at Adventure World theme park ...

The bears were first offered as diplomatic gifts by China as far back as the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The tradition has continued until this century and is often referred to as panda diplomacy.

She’ll have to give up American cookies and get used to much cooler weather, but life in China could be worse on the eve of Valentine’s Day because Hua Mei, a giant panda, already has three ...

President Xi Jinping of China said his country may keep sending giant pandas to the United States. The National Zoo in Washington sent three of them back to China last week.

Both were born at the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan Province. Mei Xiang's name translates to "beautiful fragrance," Tai Shan means, "more and more." ...

Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since she was born there in 2020 to pandas Ai Bao and Le Bao, who came from China in 2016 on a 15-year lease program.

Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. the 3-year-old panda Bao Bao will begin a journey from Washington Dulles International Airport to Chengdu, China, where she will begin a new life in a panda-breeding program. The ...

Assuming China chooses not to send over more giant pandas, and Atlanta sends theirs back next year, by the end of 2024 the only panda in zoos throughout all of the Americas would be Xin Xin in ...