WASHINGTON – Pandas are, to many, a gateway animal. People are drawn in by the bears’ charm and sweetness and before they ...

Panda haters often argue that the billions of dollars that are spent to prevent them from going extinct would be better allocated to saving more adaptable species. See for yourself:Watch pandas ...

We all need an occasional chance to focus on the untamed, and remind ourselves that we are a part of it. That might go double ...

In 1999, when the time came to name the newest panda cub in captivity, a column in the San Diego Union-Tribune joked that the baby should be called “Truman.” Never mind that she was a female.

The mountainous province boasts a latticework of panda nature reserves and breeding centers, all built in recent decades as China – and the world – raced to save the multimillion years old “living ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — Buttonwood Park Zoo said that its 2-year-old Red Panda Sprout will be headed to a zoo in New Jersey. Sprout will move to Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange as part of the ...

helping move the panda from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the global list of species at risk of extinction. Central China, home to the only natural habitat for giant pandas ...

The pandas arrived in the Smithsonian Zoo as part of a 10-year agreement with China. The zoo contributes $1 million to a conservation organization that assists endangered pandas in China.

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said the giant panda’s status had improved to “vulnerable” from “endangered” on the list of species at risk of extinction.

As the Zoo moves forward with its panda exhibit project, one donor said he will be pulling back on funding the zoo until changes are made.

Just at the time of her visit, Chinese conservation experts announced the iconic giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) has been taken off the endangered list. Wild panda populations have increased by ...

But it is not enough to save some animals from the threat of extinction: the red panda, thick-billed parrot, and blue poison dart frog are three icons of the world’s endangered color.