China has long been sending the rare members of the bear family to nations overseas as a goodwill gesture meant to build ties in a practice dubbed “panda diplomacy”. In 1972, Beijing ...
The world's oldest captive giant panda has died, according to her keepers in Fuzhou, south-east China. At 37, Basi had outlived all her panda peers, reaching the equivalent of more than a hundred ...
A popular giant panda has died unexpectedly in a Thai zoo - prompting China to send experts to investigate. Chuang Chuang had been at the Chiang Mai zoo on loan from China since 2003. The 19-year ...
Mara Hvistendahl, a The New York Times reporter who wrote “The Panda Factories”, an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism probing the impact of China’s gambit nearly 30 years ago to send ...