Fei Yun
飞云
15 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Fei Yun (飞云, studbook #774) is a female giant panda born July 30, 2010 at the Ya'an Bifengxia Base. Daughter of Lu Lu an...
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Dalian Forest Zoo
zoo Dalian, China
Dalian Forest Zoo, located in Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area of Dalian, Liaoning Province, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and a core member of the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. It hosts more than 200 species and over 3000 individual animals, including critically endangered *Ailuropoda melanoleuca* (giant panda), *Panthera tigris altaica* (Siberian tiger), *Rhinopithecus roxellana* (golden snub-nosed monkey), and *Grus japonensis* (red-crowned crane), all listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and assessed as Endangered or Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. The zoo’s Giant Panda Pavilion, built in cooperation with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, has housed 4 giant pandas since 2012, including the first giant panda cub born in Northeast China, Jin Hu, in 2015. The zoo has established long-term research partnerships with Dalian Medical University,
Dalian Forest Zoo houses giant pandas under international loan agreement with the China Conservation and Research Center, as part of the cooperative panda diplomacy and ex-situ conservation network.
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Resident archive
Pandas connected to this place
13 pandas recorded
Currently at Dalian Forest Zoo
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
Fei Yun
飞云
15 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Fei Yun is a female giant panda born on 2010-07-30 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Sh...
View profileJin Hu
金虎
16 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Jin Hu is a male giant panda born on 2010-07-08 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Regis...
View profileJin Yi
金意
14 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Jin Yi is a female giant panda born on 2011-08-06 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She...
View profileLiang Ning
亮宁
2 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Liang Ning is a female giant panda born on 2023-07-30 at Dalian Zoo. Her studbook registration number is 1353, and she i...
View profileLiang Xing
亮星
2 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Liang Xing is a female giant panda born on 2023-09-20 at Dalian Zoo. She is registered under studbook number 1371 in the...
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Pandas whose birth place is recorded as Dalian Forest Zoo.
Liang Ning
亮宁
2 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Liang Ning is a female giant panda born on 2023-07-30 at Dalian Zoo. Her studbook registration number is 1353, and she i...
View profileLiang Xing
亮星
2 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Liang Xing is a female giant panda born on 2023-09-20 at Dalian Zoo. She is registered under studbook number 1371 in the...
View profileLiang Yun
亮云
2 years old
Dalian Forest Zoo
Liang Yun is a female giant panda born on 2023-10-30 at Dalian Zoo. Her studbook number is 1389, and she is recorded as ...
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Archive timeline at Dalian Forest Zoo
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Further reading on Dalian Forest Zoo
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The International Studbook: How Big Data Prevents Panda Inbreeding
Every captive giant panda on Earth is recorded in a single global database — the International Studbook — which tracks lineage, calculates genetic relatedness, and determines each year's breeding recommendations. This article explains how studbook managers use population genetics software to maintain 90% genetic diversity across 700 captive pandas, making the panda breeding program one of the most mathematically sophisticated conservation efforts in history.
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The Giant Panda Genome Project: How DNA Sequencing Transformed Conservation
In 2009, an international team led by BGI-Shenzhen published the first complete giant panda genome — a 2.4 billion base-pair blueprint that revealed why pandas lost the taste for meat, how they digest bamboo with bacterial help, and why their genetic diversity offers hope for survival. This article follows the science from Jing Jing's blood sample to today's conservation genomics, covering TAS1R1 umami pseudogenization, the Illumina sequencing revolution, and what the genome means for the species' future.
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Panda Habitat as Carbon Sink: The Hidden Climate Value of Bamboo Forests
The bamboo forests protected for pandas store an estimated 2-3 billion tons of carbon across the Giant Panda National Park's 27,000 square kilometers — an ecosystem service worth $200-750 million annually in carbon sequestration alone. This article examines how panda conservation doubles as climate action, why bamboo forests rival tropical rainforests in per-hectare carbon storage, and how China's carbon market is creating new economic incentives for habitat protection.
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Coordinates: 38.8788 N, 121.6144 E
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About Dalian Forest Zoo
Dalian Forest Zoo, located in Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area of Dalian, Liaoning Province, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and a core member of the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. It hosts more than 200 species and over 3000 individual animals, including critically endangered Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda), Panthera tigris altaica (Siberian tiger), Rhinopithecus roxellana (golden snub-nosed monkey), and Grus japonensis (red-crowned crane), all listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and assessed as Endangered or Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. The zoo’s Giant Panda Pavilion, built in cooperation with the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, has housed 4 giant pandas since 2012, including the first giant panda cub born in Northeast China, Jin Hu, in 2015.
The zoo has established long-term research partnerships with Dalian Medical University,