Panda

MOSCOW - "I heard groups of children passing by and shouting: 'Pandas! Pandas!' They want to see them as soon as possible," said Svetlana Akulova, director general of the Moscow Zoo. She was standing in a newly built panda house. Behind her are soundproofed…

Baby pandas are rare to come by, and these two twin cubs are even more special.  He He and Mei Mei are the world's first set of panda twins that have one parent from the wild and one parent in captivity.  Born at a panda base in south-western China's Wolong…

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NEW YORK — A scruffy-looking improv dude — working the infamous Broadway Comedy Club stage on West 53rd like a seasoned pro — noticed the Vancouver Canucks’ ball cap resting on my head then “welcomed” this tourist to the overpriced City That Never Sleeps. “H…

Media captionThe greater Bermuda land snail is back from the brink Thousands of critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a British zoo. The greater Bermuda land sn…

Few birthdays call for greater celebration than that of Xiang Xiang, a female giant panda cub living in Tokyo’s Ueno zoo who will turn 2 years old on Wednesday. Ahead of her birthday, the zoo released on Monday an update on her growth. Xiang Xiang was born …

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A healthy female cub weighing nearly 5.9 ounces has become the first baby panda to be born in captivity in the world this year.  The pink, hairless cub was born at wee hours on Wednesday at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in south-western C…

People's Daily Online (Xinhua) 07:47, June 06, 2019 MOSCOW, June 5 (Xinhua) -- China and Russia agreed on Wednesday to upgrade their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. The decision was made at a meeting betwe…

By RFE/RL June 06, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping are heading off to an important economic conference in St. Petersburg after going to lengths to demonstrate what they called a great "friendship" with a little "panda diplomacy."…