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Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, located in Xiuying District, Haikou, Hainan Province, is China's southernmost large-scale integrated wildlife and botanical conservation institution, positioned at the northern edge of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park ecological corridor. The park's ex-situ conservation collection includes over 200 rare animal species, such as the *Nomascus hainanus* (Hainan gibbon, IUCN Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix I), *Cervus eldii hainanus* (Hainan Eld's deer, IUCN Endangered), *Pavo muticus* (Green peafowl, IUCN Endangered), and the iconic giant pandas *Ailuropoda melanoleuca* Gonggong and Shunshun, which were transferred from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in 2018. Its botanical collection preserves over 1,000 tropical plant species,
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden 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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This page gathers the residents linked to Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, the key moments recorded here, nearby institutions, and the articles that add context.
Resident archive
13 pandas recorded
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
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Gong Gong (贡贡, studbook #890) is a male giant panda born August 18, 2013 at Ya'an Bifengxia Base. Son of Lu Lu and Feng ...
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Gong Gong is a male giant panda born on 2013-08-18 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Hi...
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Hai Hai (海海, studbook #1309) is a male giant panda born on 2018-07-29 at Hainan Zoo. He currently lives at Hainan Zoo. H...
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Hai Ning is a male giant panda born on 2020-08-30 at Hainan Zoo. He holds studbook number 1350 for the global captive gi...
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Hai Tao is a male giant panda born on 2019-07-25 at Hainan Zoo. He is registered under studbook number 1332 in the globa...
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Hai Xing is a male giant panda born on 2021-09-15 at Hainan Zoo. His studbook number is 1368, registered through the Chi...
View profilePandas whose birth place is recorded as Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden.
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Hai Hai (海海, studbook #1309) is a male giant panda born on 2018-07-29 at Hainan Zoo. He currently lives at Hainan Zoo. H...
View profile海宁
Hai Ning is a male giant panda born on 2020-08-30 at Hainan Zoo. He holds studbook number 1350 for the global captive gi...
View profile海涛
Hai Tao is a male giant panda born on 2019-07-25 at Hainan Zoo. He is registered under studbook number 1332 in the globa...
View profileRecorded moments
Shun Shun and Gong Gong became the first giant pandas to settle in Hainan Province.
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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.
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.
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: 19.7431 N, 110.2361 E
Archive notes
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden, located in Xiuying District, Haikou, Hainan Province, is China's southernmost large-scale integrated wildlife and botanical conservation institution, positioned at the northern edge of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park ecological corridor. The park's ex-situ conservation collection includes over 200 rare animal species, such as the Nomascus hainanus (Hainan gibbon, IUCN Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix I), Cervus eldii hainanus (Hainan Eld's deer, IUCN Endangered), Pavo muticus (Green peafowl, IUCN Endangered), and the iconic giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca Gonggong and Shunshun, which were transferred from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in 2018. Its botanical collection preserves over 1,000 tropical plant species,