Bao Bao
宝宝
12 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Bao Bao (宝宝, studbook #897) is a female giant panda born on August 23, 2013 at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washingto...
captive-bred usa overseas
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Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
breeding center Wolong, China
Located within the boundaries of the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base sits at the core of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2006. Nestled at the eastern edge of the Hengduan Mountains and adjacent to the 5040-meter Balang Mountain, the base spans 1500 acres of prime *Ailuropoda melanoleuca* (giant panda) habitat, with native vegetation including *Phyllostachys edulis* (moso bamboo) and *Fargesia robusta* (umbrella bamboo), the two primary food sources for local giant panda populations. It falls under the governance of the Wolong National Nature Reserve Administration and is a core facility of the China Conservation
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Start with the pandas, then move outward into the surrounding archive
This page gathers the residents linked to Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base, the key moments recorded here, nearby institutions, and the articles that add context.
Resident archive
Pandas connected to this place
26 pandas recorded
Currently at Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
Bo Si
博斯
16 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Bo Si (博斯, studbook #750) is a female giant panda born August 7, 2009 at the Ya'an Bifengxia Base. Daughter of Tian Tian...
View profileFu Bao
福宝
5 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Fu Bao (福宝), studbook #1284, is a female giant panda born on July 20, 2020 at Everland Resort in South Korea — the first...
captive-bred everland korea
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Fu Ni
福妮
19 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Fu Ni is a female giant panda born on August 23, 2006 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda....
View profileHang Bao
航宝
5 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Hang Bao (航宝) is a female giant panda born June 23, 2020 at the Wolong Shenshuping Base. Her birthday coincided with the...
View profileHe He
和和
7 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
He He (和和, studbook #1142) is a male giant panda born July 25, 2018 at Wolong Hetaoping Base. He and his twin sister Mei...
captive-bred wild-breeding guinness-record
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Born here
Pandas whose birth place is recorded as Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base.
Hang Bao
航宝
5 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Hang Bao (航宝) is a female giant panda born June 23, 2020 at the Wolong Shenshuping Base. Her birthday coincided with the...
View profileHua Bao
华宝
3 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Hua Bao (华宝) is a male giant panda born on July 10, 2022 at the Wolong Shenshuping Base. Twin brother of Fu Jiang, he wa...
View profileJin Zhu
锦竹
29 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Jin Zhu (锦竹, studbook #437) was a giant panda born August 12, 1996 at Wolong. Sent to Japan in 2000 as a "male" named Xi...
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Pandas that were once linked to this institution.
Jin Zhu
锦竹
29 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Jin Zhu (锦竹, studbook #437) was a giant panda born August 12, 1996 at Wolong. Sent to Japan in 2000 as a "male" named Xi...
View profileLu Lu
芦芦
27 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Lu Lu (芦芦), studbook #503, was a male giant panda rescued from the wild in 1999 in Lushan County, Ya'an, Sichuan. Named ...
wild-born rescued prolific-sire
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Mei An
美安
19 years old
Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Mei An (美安, studbook #653) was a female giant panda born September 22, 2006 at the Wolong Hetaoping Base. Her name, mean...
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Archive timeline at Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
2026
Apr 3
Jia Mei's Cub Dies from Tongue Root Swelling
Jia Mei's cub, born August 28, 2025, died from acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by tongue root swelling despite 60+ hours of intensive care.
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Jun 21
2025
Jun 21
Ling Lang gives birth to first cub of 2025
Ling Lang gave birth to a cub at Wolong Shenshuping Base, the first CCRCGP panda cub of 2025.
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Apr 4
2024
Nov 15
Wang Wang and Fu Ni Return to China
After 15 years in Australia, Wang Wang and Fu Ni returned to China and entered quarantine at the Wolong Shenshuping Base.
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Apr 3
2024
Mar 23
Qing Ci dies from intestinal obstruction
Qing Ci died from a rare intestinal obstruction with intussusception, the first such case at CCRCGP.
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Nov 9
Mei Xiang returns to China
After 23 years, Mei Xiang returned to China with Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji.
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Nov 8
2023
Aug 29
In the library
Further reading on Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
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Culture 📚 general
The Ultimate Panda Documentary Guide: 50+ Films Every Panda Lover Needs to Watch
A curated global guide to over 50 panda documentaries spanning seven decades, seven thematic categories, and ten countries — from Pan Wenshi's raw Qinling field recordings in the 1990s to the 2024 Korean theatrical release Goodbye, Grandpa. Every film is verified, reviewed, and linked to the real pandas, keepers, and breeding centers behind the footage.
documentary film guide
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Culture 📚 general
Pan Pan's Dynasty: The Hero Father Behind 25% of All Captive Pandas
Studbook #001. 130+ descendants. 25% of the global captive population. Pan Pan was the most genetically prolific giant panda in history — rescued from the wild as a cub, he became the founding sire who rescued the captive breeding program from collapse. This is the story of the panda who became a dynasty, the genetic legacy that now defines a quarter of all captive pandas, and the complex management challenge his extraordinary reproductive success created.
1 panda
pan-pan dynasty breeding
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Culture 📚 general
Rewilding Pandas: From Captivity Back to the Deep Forest
The ultimate goal of panda conservation is not more pandas in cages — it is more pandas in forests. Since 2006, China has been training captive-born pandas for release into the wild through a program that requires keepers to wear panda suits, mothers to teach cubs survival skills without human contact, and released pandas to navigate a world their ancestors knew but they have never seen. This is the story of the rewilding program — its heartbreaking early failures, its hard-won successes, and the panda mothers and cubs who are slowly learning to be wild again.
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rewilding release wild-training
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World map
Where this place sits in the wider panda world
📍 All Locations
Coordinates: 30.9880 N, 103.3500 E
Archive notes
About Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base
Located within the boundaries of the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base sits at the core of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2006. Nestled at the eastern edge of the Hengduan Mountains and adjacent to the 5040-meter Balang Mountain, the base spans 1500 acres of prime Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda) habitat, with native vegetation including Phyllostachys edulis (moso bamboo) and Fargesia robusta (umbrella bamboo), the two primary food sources for local giant panda populations. It falls under the governance of the Wolong National Nature Reserve Administration and is a core facility of the China Conservation