Qi Guo
奇果
10 years old
Xining Wildlife Park
Qi Guo (奇果, studbook #1009) is a female giant panda born July 1, 2016 at Chengdu Base. Twin of Qi Yi (奇一), daughter of Q...
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Xining Wildlife Park
zoo Xining, China
Established 2009
Xining Wildlife Park, located at the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at 2295m elevation, is the highest-altitude zoo in China to house giant pandas. In June 2019, four giant pandas were transferred from Chengdu Base for public education, marking the species' first permanent presence in Qinghai Province.
Xining Wildlife Park 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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2 pandas recorded
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Shuang Xin
双欣
14 years old
Xining Wildlife Park
Shuang Xin (双欣, sb818) is a female born 2011-08-09 at Chengdu Base, twin sister of Shuang Xi (双喜). Daughter of Da Shuang...
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Archive timeline at Xining Wildlife Park
2019
Jun 3
Shuang Xin Transferred to Xining
Shuang Xin moved from Chengdu Base to Xining Wildlife Park in Qinghai, one of the first pandas to live on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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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: 36.5667 N, 101.8167 E