National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists desperate to save the species from extinction. The iconic bears, native to China and beloved around the world, have been famously hard to breed.

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tune in to Panda Babies: Mission Critical on August 28 at 8 p.m. ET on Nat Geo WILD to follow their development at ...

A fully grown panda is far too formidable a foe for most predators, but some animals can prey on cubs. Potential predators include jackals, snow leopards and yellow-throated martens, all of which are ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

Talk about plot twists in nature's story! While many creatures face the final curtain call of extinction, some spectacular ...

The 13 panda cubs are part of the 15 pandas born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province in 2022 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

Two-year-old female giant panda Qing Bao in her habitat at Dujiangyan Base in Sichuan, China, May 17, 2024. Two new giant pandas are returning to Washington’s National Zoo from China this year.

WASHINGTON--China’s panda diplomacy may have one true winner: the pandas themselves. Decades after Beijing began working with zoos in the U.S. and Europe to protect the species, the number of ...