Bao Li and Qing Bao will soon go on display at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., possibly signaling a new era of panda diplomacy.
Bei Bei was born at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. in 2015. Like all U.S.-born pandas, he returned to China at age four.
So does the San Diego Zoo's new panda pair, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, which joined the zoo in August 2024.President Richard Nixon and Patricia Nixon traveled to Beijing In honor of the arrival of Bao Li and Qing Bao, let’s take a deeper look at how we arrived at this moment in history—as well as learn what scientists believe the future holds for the species.
The tragedy caught the world’s attention and pushed China to heavily invest in captive breeding and learning how to artificially inseminate pandas., and current breeding programs include pandas born in the wild to increase genetic diversity in the captive population, says Brody. What’s more, despite intense efforts to prepare pandas for life in the wild, efforts to reintroduce the animals into the wild have not been as successful as hoped.“The case has to be made that we have to begin to reintroduce pandas into the wild, and we have to prepare the public for the really pretty awful news that many of those animals are going to die,” says Pimm.That’s because no matter what the species, many reintroduced animals perish before a new population can take hold.
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