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China Sends Pandas Ping Ping, Fu Shuang to Zoo Atlanta

4/24/2026

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China Sends Pandas

China will send pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang to Zoo Atlanta.
The pandas come from Chengdu’s breeding base under a deal with the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
Zoo Atlanta is upgrading facilities as part of a partnership that began with a 1999 agreement.
The cooperation, announced weeks before President Donald Trump’s Beijing trade visit, will focus on disease prevention, scientific exchanges and development of China’s Giant Panda National Park.

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Pandas Return Chengdu

The former panda family left Atlanta in October 2024 and returned to the Chengdu Research Base.
About 72% of wild giant pandas now live in protected reserves.
China has created 67 panda reserves and a national-park system that links habitats.
The Chengdu Research Base runs habitat-restoration and ranger-training programs and produced two sets of twin cubs during a 25-year partnership.

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China Sends Pandas

China will send pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang to Zoo Atlanta.
The pandas come from Chengdu’s breeding base under a deal with the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
Zoo Atlanta is upgrading facilities as part of a partnership that began with a 1999 agreement.
The cooperation, announced weeks before President Donald Trump’s Beijing trade visit, will focus on disease prevention, scientific exchanges and development of China’s Giant Panda National Park.

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