Thousands of fans in Japan have bid an emotional farewell to four giant pandas. The pandas, a mother and her three daughters, ...

Eimei returned home two years ago and has since died. Despite strained political ties between Japan and China, giant pandas are hugely popular in Japan. “We feel comforted just by looking at pandas,” ...

Founded in 1889, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute spans 163 acres in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park and houses over 2,100 animals across nearly 400 species ...

Asharq Al Awsat Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of Shirahama as the animals made their last public appearance before ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three times the size of the U.S. system.

The government has been steadily expanding visa-free entry in a bid to boost tourism, the economy and its soft power.

China has already opened five national parks, totaling 57 million acres. Collectively, the parks span alpine peaks, tropical rainforests, remote glaciers, vast deserts, and high-altitude wetlands.

On June 8, a viral video showed several visitors at a zoo in Liaoning province, northeastern China, pulling hair from the big cat’s belly and tail through a metal fence.

Mei Zhu, a giant panda cub at Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou China, celebrated her first birthday with a lively party filled with lots of treats.

As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans ...

TOKYO -- Four giant pandas in the western Japanese prefecture of Wakayama departed for China on Saturday.