Calling Back the Pandas

With the setting of the sun, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding transforms into a bamboo forest of tranquility as visitors taper down and birds Hock and settle into their nests. The busiest time of the day for panda keepers comes at 16:30 at what is affectionately nicknamed “calling back the pandas”. At […]

Observation on Tourists at the Chengdu Panda Base

It was an extraordinary opportunity for me to have a 5-day experience living and working with giant pandas, a creature known as one of Chinas national treasures. Through these days of being animal keeper and camper in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding I learned so much. Not only did the experience expand […]

Chengdu Panda Base’s Research Project Takes First Place

On May 18, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding took first place at the Sichuan Provincial Science and TechnoIogy Awards conference. The research project entitled “‘Research and Application of Giant Panda Breeding Biology and Conservation Genetics” was awarded top prize for the Sichuan Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress category. Dr. Zhang Zhihe attended […]