Philanthropist and Baltimore native David M. Rubenstein pledged $10 Million to the National Zoo for the upcoming return of ...

Not all are. Adequate habitat for the bears’ release is also a concern. Since the 1970s the Chinese have gone from 12 panda reserves to 67, making the bears, on paper, the most protected animal ...

In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate ... pandas are ...

Giant pandas are black and white bears that live in temperate-zone bamboo ... endangered species and conservation efforts. The giant panda is listed as endangered in the World Conservation ...

Already endangered due to hunting and habitat loss, conservation efforts are now even more critical, say scientists. The red panda lives in ... small mammals resemble bears but are in a genus ...

Expanded protected areas and use of similarly effective techniques with animals living alongside the vulnerable bears seen as ...

Giant pandas are classified under a separate, distant taxonomic family of bears called Ursidae. However, the plot thickens as the red panda was first discovered ... However, the exact figure remains ...

A WWF project in China's Sichuan province, the giant panda’s most important remaining stronghold ... It shelters a multitude of rare and endangered species, including black bears, brown bears, red ...

The panda program is getting an upgrade — and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has David ...

Team at the University of Tübingen’s Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment finds omnivorous ancestor ...

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists desperate to save the species from extinction. The iconic bears, native to ... and in their natural habitat, Vitale always took great care ...

(Read about a Thai zoo that turned to "panda porn" to get its bears in the mood ... in China have been reintroduced into their native habitat, "but the bigger question is not can we breed ...