Feng Ning
风宁
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Ning (风宁, studbook #1354) is a female giant panda born on 2022-08-30 at the Fuping Protection Station of the Wolong...
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Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
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The Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling), located in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, is a specialized ex-situ conservation facility dedicated to the Qinling subspecies of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis), a genetically distinct taxon listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and protected under Appendix I of CITES. Situated at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot, the habitat adjoins Taibai Mountain National Forest Park and the Hanjiang River Source Protection Zone, forming a contiguous conservation network with the adjacent Qinling National Park. Its founding in 2017 was led by the Shaanxi Forestry Bureau, in partnership with Northwest A&F University and the Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, to address the unique conservation needs of the Qinling panda population, which is geographically isolated from other giant panda populations in Sichuan and Gansu provinces. In addition to its core giant panda conservation work, the habitat supports a range of sympatric native Qinling species, including the golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), takin
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling) 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
12 pandas recorded
Currently at Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
Feng Xing
风星
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Xing is a female giant panda born on 2022-09-25 at the Fuping Giant Panda Wild Training Base. She is registered as ...
View profileFeng Yun
风云
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Yun is a female giant panda born on 2022-11-05 at the Fuping section of the Qinling Giant Panda National Park. She...
View profileLe Le
乐乐
17 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Le Le (乐乐, studbook #715) is a male giant panda born on July 29, 2008 at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding R...
View profileLin Lin
林林
5 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Lin Lin (林林, studbook #1316) is a female giant panda born on 2020-07-26 at Foping National Nature Reserve. She currently...
View profileQin Yun
秦韵
5 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Qin Yun (秦韵) is a female Qinling giant panda born August 17, 2020 at the Qinling Panda Research Center. Known as the "Dr...
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Pandas whose birth place is recorded as Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling).
Feng Ning
风宁
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Ning (风宁, studbook #1354) is a female giant panda born on 2022-08-30 at the Fuping Protection Station of the Wolong...
View profileFeng Xing
风星
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Xing is a female giant panda born on 2022-09-25 at the Fuping Giant Panda Wild Training Base. She is registered as ...
View profileFeng Yun
风云
3 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Feng Yun is a female giant panda born on 2022-11-05 at the Fuping section of the Qinling Giant Panda National Park. She...
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Pandas that were once linked to this institution.
Xiao Ya
小丫
11 years old
Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
Xiao Ya (小丫, studbook #940) was a female giant panda born September 15, 2014 at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue Center....
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Archive timeline at Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
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Le Le transferred to Foping Base
Le Le moved to Foping Panda Conservation and Breeding Research Base.
Read update 2021
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2020
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In the library
Further reading on Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
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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.
1 panda
studbook genetics breeding
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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.
1 panda
genome dna genetics
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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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Where this place sits in the wider panda world
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Coordinates: 33.6822 N, 107.9856 E
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About Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling)
The Fuping Wild Panda Habitat (Qinling), located in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, is a specialized ex-situ conservation facility dedicated to the Qinling subspecies of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis), a genetically distinct taxon listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and protected under Appendix I of CITES. Situated at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot, the habitat adjoins Taibai Mountain National Forest Park and the Hanjiang River Source Protection Zone, forming a contiguous conservation network with the adjacent Qinling National Park. Its founding in 2017 was led by the Shaanxi Forestry Bureau, in partnership with Northwest A&F University and the Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, to address the unique conservation needs of the Qinling panda population, which is geographically isolated from other giant panda populations in Sichuan and Gansu provinces.
In addition to its core giant panda conservation work, the habitat supports a range of sympatric native Qinling species, including the golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), takin