Catherine Rusoff
Washington’s National Zoo is preparing to welcome two new giant pandas at the end of the year, about six months after he sent his three pandas back to China.
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute once housed Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, which were loaned by China for a research and breeding program. The two pandas and their baby, Xiao Qi Ji, will not be returning, but visitors will soon be able to experience Bao Li and Qing Bao, the zoo said in a press release.
Bao Li, a 2-year-old giant panda, is the grandson of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian.
Roshan Patel, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
The second panda, Qing Bao, is also 2 years old.
Roshan Patel, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Both were born at the China Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center. They will be transported to the United States by FedEx, which has previously herded pandas between the US and China.
As the pandas return, so does the zoo’s Panda Cam, which allows people around the world to check out the pandas in real time, according to Lonnie G. Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Pandas were first sent to DC in 1972 to help breed and continue the species. On a video shared on social media To announce the pandas’ return, zoo employee Brandie Smith referred to the program as “one of our greatest conservation success stories.”
Only a few zoos housed pandas while the program was in effect, including the National Zoo, the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, and the San Diego Zoo in California. All three zoos returned their pandas when loan agreements expired and diplomatic tensions between the US and China rose. The last pandas in the US are at the Atlanta Zoo and are I hoped to return to China between October and December.
A new pair of pandas are also must be sent to the San Diego Zoo already at the end of this summer. The China Wildlife Conservation Association has also signed cooperation agreements with a zoo in MadridSpain, and was in negotiations for such an agreement with a zoo in Vienna, Austria.
Pandas have long been a symbol of friendship between the United States and China, since the first were sent to the National Zoo in 1972, before relations between the countries normalized. Zoos also helped breed pandas and increase the species’ population.
There are just over 1,800 pandas in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fundand although breeding programs have increased their numbers, the panda’s survival is still considered to be at serious risk.
Zoos typically pay a fee of $1 million a year for two pandas, with the money going to China’s conservation efforts, according to a 2022 report by the US Congressional Research Service.
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