Pandas

A pair of 2-year-old giant pandas are set to arrive at the National Zoo by the end of the year. The male panda, Bao Li, is the offspring of Bao Bao, who was born in D.C. in 2013. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A pair of 2-year-old giant pandas named Bao Li and Qing Bao are set to make the National Zoo their new home by the end of the year, according to zoo officials.

“It’s always been our intention and hope to have giant pandas at the Zoo in the future and continue our research here and conservation work in China,” Smith said in a statement Thursday. “The Zoo is in discussions with our Chinese partner, the China Wildlife Conservation Association, to develop a future giant panda program. After 52 years of success, we...

The Associated Press is reporting — and the San Diego Zoo confirms — that China plans to send a pair of pandas to San Diego as early as the end of this summer.

The bears have long been the symbol of the U.S.-China friendship since Beijing gifted a pair of pandas to the National Zoo in Washington in 1972, ahead of the normalization of bilateral relations

As the National Zoo pandas depart D.C. for a new home in China, Ginette Hemley, the World Wildlife Fund’s senior vice president of wildlife conservation, explains why pandas are no longer endangered.

After traveling halfway around the globe, D.C.’s beloved pandas made it to their final destination in China Thursday morning, the National Zoo said. Tian Tian, 26; Mei Xiang, 25, and their youngest offspring, 3-year-old Xiao Qi Ji, departed D.C. Wednesday for their new homes at the China Wildlife Conservation Association. A FedEx “Panda Express” plane took the pandas on...

Nearly 19 hours after they left D.C. the pandas have arrived at their new home in China, according to the National Zoo.

Since 1972, pandas have been the biggest stars at the Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C. Today, the three remaining bears departed for China.

Many were tearful as they watched the pandas depart D.C. for China. News4’s Aimee Cho and Tommy McFly have team coverage of the historic day.

Crowds cheered, clapped and some cried as the plane carrying the beloved pandas took off.

Mei Xiang gave the D.C. area an adorable last glimpse of a panda.

News4’s Aimee Cho spoke to one of the pilots flying the National Zoo’s pandas to China.

Chopper4 had a bird’s eye view of the panda motorcade as it made its way down I-66 toward Dulles International Airport.

Watch the panda motorcade depart the National Zoo and make its way toward Dulles International Airport.

Here’s what the director of D.C.’s National Zoo said upon the pandas’ departure.

Here’s video of a create carrying panda Mei Xiang being wheeled out of D.C.’s zoo.

The National Zoo’s giant pandas are leaving D.C. for China. Here’s what to know about their farewell journey.

It’s the day thousands of visitors to the National Zoo have been dreading for months. The beloved giant pandas are leaving D.C., traveling up Connecticut Avenue and flying to China on a FedEx plane.