Ji Lan
绩兰
10 years old
Nanning Zoo
Ji Lan (绩兰, studbook #1004) is a female giant panda born June 27, 2016 at Chengdu Base. Twin sister of Ji Mei, daughter ...
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Nanning Zoo
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Nanning Zoo, located in Xixiangtang District of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is one of southern China's key subtropical zoological institutions, operating under the oversight of the Nanning Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports and holding membership in the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. The zoo is renowned for its conservation work on endemic primate species of southwest China, including the Critically Endangered Trachypithecus leucocephalus (white-headed langur) and Trachypithecus francoisi (François' langur), whose natural habitats are restricted to the karst limestone mountains of Guangxi and adjacent northern Vietnam. In partnership with the Guangxi Chongzuo White-headed Langur National Nature Reserve, the zoo runs a captive breeding program that has supported the reintroduction of 1
Nanning 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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Ji Mei
绩美
10 years old
Nanning Zoo
Ji Mei (绩美, studbook #1003) is a male giant panda born June 27, 2016 at Chengdu Base. Son of Mei Lan and Ji Li, twin bro...
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Ji Lan Transferred to Nanning Zoo
Ji Lan and her twin brother Ji Mei moved to Nanning Zoo, debuting to the public on January 15, 2020.
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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: 22.8250 N, 108.2350 E
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About Nanning Zoo
Nanning Zoo, located in Xixiangtang District of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is one of southern China's key subtropical zoological institutions, operating under the oversight of the Nanning Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports and holding membership in the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens. The zoo is renowned for its conservation work on endemic primate species of southwest China, including the Critically Endangered Trachypithecus leucocephalus (white-headed langur) and Trachypithecus francoisi (François' langur), whose natural habitats are restricted to the karst limestone mountains of Guangxi and adjacent northern Vietnam. In partnership with the Guangxi Chongzuo White-headed Langur National Nature Reserve, the zoo runs a captive breeding program that has supported the reintroduction of 1