Wild pandas are no longer a species in freefall — they are a species being managed. The real question for 2050 is not whether they survive, ...
In the mountains of Sichuan, a small number of giant pandas are raised to live without humans. The work is slower, riskier, and more uncertain than ...
Villages, cattle, dogs and herb gatherers share the Giant Panda National Park with 1,864 wild pandas. A field report from the mountains of northern Sichuan on ...
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 ...
A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours a day eating and swallows up to 38 kilograms of bamboo. The reason is not laziness but a ...
Most panda visits in China go wrong in the same way: the wrong hour, the wrong place, the wrong ticket. Here is a practical guide to ...
Strip away the postcard and the giant panda is stranger than the mascot: a 100-kilogram bear with a carnivore's gut, a sixth 'thumb' made of wrist ...
A visit to a giant panda base in Sichuan reveals more than cute animals. Here is what the people who care for them and the visitors ...