Patriot 5K walk run raises funds for homeless veterans in Reading event
READING, Pa. - The Patriot 5K Walk Run benefiting homeless veterans was held in Reading on Saturday. Hope Rescue Mission put ...
The New York Times25d
Want to Rent a Panda? Here Are 5 Things China Demands in Return.
Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements. By Mara Hvistendahl Mara Hvistendahl reviewed about 10,000 ...
The New York Times29d
China Counts Wild Pandas. Nobody Believes Its Tally.
The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong American zoos point to a rise in the wild panda numbers ...
The Daily Beast24d
Documents Reveal China’s Strict Zoo Panda Exchange System
The documents, when compared with past panda contracts, reportedly reveal how American zoo administrators are handing over authority to China’s state-run Wildlife Conservation Association just ...
PBS29d
Panda-monium returns to Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s long dark panda drought seems to be coming to an end. Eleven months after the zoo sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their ...
Thousands gather at The Banks in support of veterans for DAV 5K
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Thousands laced up their sneakers and gathered at The Banks to raise money for veterans. The DAV 5K began ...
NBC Washington29d
New DC panda Bao Li's mom was a star at the National Zoo, too
The Panda Express has landed! A specially outfitted FedEx plane landed Tuesday morning at Dulles International Airport with some VIP passengers: a pair of 3-year-old pandas who will take up ...
USA Today29d
The return of 'panda diplomacy': National Zoo eagerly awaits giant panda arrival
Male Bao Li and female Qing Bao, both 3 years old, will fill the large void left at the National Zoo’s now-renovated panda exhibit when their predecessors – a couple that had been there for 24 ...
Los Angeles Times28d
San Diego Zoo has flipped the Panda Cam live. Take a look at Xin Bao and Yun Chuan
Panda Cam is live. “Xin Bao and Yun Chuan have acclimated beautifully to their expansive, bamboo-filled homes and now their playful antics and natural behaviors can be observed from anywhere ...
San Diego Union-Tribune28d
Must-see viewing returns with San Diego Zoo’s live Panda Cam
Fans of giant pandas now have a way to watch the antics of Yun Chuan and Xin Bao at the San Diego Zoo from anywhere in the world, thanks to Tuesday’s launch of the Panda Cam. Before getting to ...
NBC Washington29d
Giant panda pair now home at the National Zoo in DC, debuting in January
When the National Zoo's last three pandas left for China last fall, it wasn't clear when — or if — D.C. would ever again be home to giant pandas. But ... surprise! In May, officials revealed ...
USA Today28d
Panda express: Washington welcomes two new giant pandas to National Zoo
Giant pandas are icons in Washington. For more than five decades, the National Zoo has created and maintained one of the world’s foremost giant panda conservation programs, helping move the pand ...