People are drawn in by the bears’ charm and sweetness and before they know it, they’re hooked: spending hours staring through the glass at panda habitats, pouring over clips of the bears online and ...

Not all are. Adequate habitat for the bears’ release is also a concern. Since the 1970s the Chinese have gone from 12 panda reserves to 67, making the bears, on paper, the most protected animal ...

Liu Xuehua, an ecologist who dedicated her career to preserving panda habitat, never knew about these bears growing up in a small industrial city in southeastern China in the 1960s and 1970s.

Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat, the large complex at the zoo that derives its name from Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein and his family, where the bears have been settling in since ...

The bears made their public debut Friday ... Over the past year, she still visited the zoo often, stopping by the empty panda habitat where she would reflect on the countless hours she spent ...

The 3-year-old bears arrived in Washington this past ... breeding and conservation program.” Female giant panda Qing Bao in her habitat Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...

Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae. However, the plot thickens as the red panda was first discovered ... However, the exact figure remains ...

Money spent to preserve the bears' wild habitats also benefits ... and resources that have gone to saving the giant panda and giant panda habitat, there are other species that are being saved ...