Si Nian
思念
Si Nian (思念, studbook #961) is a male giant panda born August 2, 2015 at Chengdu Base. Son of Mei Lan and Si Yuan, twin ...
Place archive
Xiamen Panda World is a panda exhibition facility in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
Xiamen Panda World 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.
How this page is organized
This page gathers the residents linked to Xiamen Panda World, the key moments recorded here, nearby institutions, and the articles that add context.
Resident archive
2 pandas recorded
The pandas currently recorded at this institution.
思念
Si Nian (思念, studbook #961) is a male giant panda born August 2, 2015 at Chengdu Base. Son of Mei Lan and Si Yuan, twin ...
思筠筠
Si Yun Yun (思筠筠) is a male giant panda born August 2, 2015 at Chengdu Base. Twin of Si Nian, son of Mei Lan and Si Yuan,...
Recorded moments
No update records have been linked to Xiamen Panda World so far.
In the library
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.
World map
Coordinates: 24.4800 N, 118.0900 E