China Da Panda Protection Res. Ctr.
Rescue and research reserve raising giant pandas for release, with a geriatric wing for its elder breeding stock.
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This guide to the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Chengdu follows Pan Pan, a male panda rescued as an abandoned cub in the mountains of Baoxing county in 1986, and his unusual role in a captive-breeding program struggling to survive in the 1980s and 90s. It traces his descendants scattered from San Diego to Edinburgh, and the 2008 earthquake that reshaped this reserve. Look for the geriatric wing, built for elder breeding stock like him.
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