I’m going to write more than one post today so I want to start out with good news. Lun Lun, ZooAtlanta’s adult female giant panda, gave birth last night at 10:10 p.m. to a tiny, pink, squealing cub. You can read about the hours leading up to the birth and watch a video of Lun [...]
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As you can see from my banner image, Tai Shan and I have been friends for a long time. Today, he turns three years old and the zoo gave him a couple of giant fruitsicles (frozen water and apple juice with bits of bamboo, apples, pears, and carrots tossed in) including one in the shape [...]
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Here’s some good news from Pandas International about Guo Guo, a giant panda who survived the May 12 earthquake while at the Wolong reserve. She’s been moved to Bifengxia and just gave birth to twins! Yesterday morning, the giant panda Guo Guo, gave birth to twins at Bifengxia, part of the China Conservation & Research [...]
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Remember to e-mail your vote for moon bears as one of Asia’s Big 5 species! Second post today! Here’s the latest news from Pandas International Director Suzanne Braden, who is at Wolong helping the staff with supplies paid for by donations. In case you missed the NBC new reports on the Today Show and the [...]
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Oh, I loves my moon bears. I’m a monthly supporter of Animals Asia Foundation and their work rescuing moon bears from bile farms. Now, they need our help to make moon bears (Asiatic black bears) one of Asia’s Big 5 species. Here’s the scoop (note: the contest Web site isn’t working so please send votes [...]
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The title of this post is the tagline for a new blog on Wildlife Direct, “Bornean Sun Bear Conservation.” You know I love bears, so I want to bring attention so a very important project. The conservationist who writes the blog, Siew Te Wong, has spent the last 10 years studying and trying to find [...]
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BBC News, and other organizations, report today that keepers and staff at the giant panda breeding center in Wolong buried a panda killed in last month’s earthquake. The nine-year-old female panda, Mao Mao, was found crushed under the walls of her enclosure. She was the mother of five panda cubs. Her keeper, He Changgui, laid [...]
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Jill Robinson writes in her blog about the rescue of three young moon bears in Vietnam. This is Amigo. Isn’t he sweet? The young bears were rescued by Vietnamese authorities who caught a Chinese man attempting to leave the country with them. He had no official papers of any kind and the Vietnamese authorities don’t [...]
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PI has some nice pictures of the nearly three tons of medical and other supplies they delivered to the staff and pandas at Wolong. Here’s the update: Wolong Says “Thank You!” We finally received pictures showing the arrival of medical supplies to Wolong. Last night, via satellite phone, Pandas International received a very grateful thank [...]
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Second update today. Scroll down the page for the Oprah news. The latest update from Pandas International includes some photos taken as the keepers at Wolong rescued the one-year-old cubs from their destroyed enclosure and rescuing an injured adult panda. You can see how the mountain behind them has fallen. It’s frightening to think how [...]
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