When the last four giant pandas relocated from Adventure World in Wakayama in June 2025, it left a void in the park. For over three decades, these black and white cuddly animals had remained the ...

A four-month-old panda, center, is examined before it is released into the wild by panda researchers who dressed up as a ...

BEIJING, China — Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species thanks to conservation efforts, Chinese officials announced this week. Cui Shuhong, the head of the Ministry of Ecology and ...

It looks like even panda bears are obsessed with taking selfies. A giant panda cub at the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base in Southwest China spent time with a ...

Nathalia Holt is the author of “The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda,” from which this op-ed is adapted. In 1929, the two eldest sons of ...

Giant pandas are among the most beloved animals on Earth—and they’re also one of conservation’s most hopeful success stories.