At 8:15 a.m. someone hands me a shovel. The panda keeper for a day program near Chengdu costs about 700 yuan and involves raking, weighing bamboo, ...
Panda diplomacy is not only a photograph of a cute animal. Since 1984 it has been a legal and financial arrangement: ten-year loans, CITES permits, annual ...
China's wild giant pandas live in a handful of fragmented mountain ranges. Inside breeding centers, a studbook, a kinship score and a DNA test decide which ...