Pandas have fueled the Japanese town of Shirahama’s tourism industry for decades. But the town’s zoo has to send its last ...

But the four pandas at the town’s local zoo really belong to China, and China wants them back, leaving town residents in an ...

According to the Adventure World, the conservation project period will end in August, and the four pandas will be returned to China at the end of June to avoid the extreme summer heat in Japan.

SHIRAHAMA, Japan — Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of Shirahama as the animals made their last public appearance ...

When asked if China and Japan will continue their international cooperation on giant panda conservation as Wakayama’s four giant pandas will soon return to China and Japan’s only remaining two ...

“We utilize these charismatic species like the giant panda to drive whole conservation programs,” said Michael Brown-Pallsgrove, curator of giant pandas at the National Zoo.

Japanese panda fans bid teary farewells to their idols Xiang Xiang, “super papa” Eimei and his twin daughters who were sent to China to live in a protected facility in Sichuan province.

“We welcome Japan’s continuous interest in international cooperation on giant panda conservation and support for China’s giant panda conservation endeavor to jointly protect this special ...

As a first step toward species conservation, we conducted a taxonomic study of amphipod Crustacea, which boasts high species diversity around Japan,” Tomikawa said in an Oct. 24 news release ...

Panda conservation benefits a variety of plants and animals, not just pandas, new research proves.

Tokyo, 8 May 2019: WWF has today requested the government of Japan to conduct an overhaul of the legal system governing its domestic ivory market. Ryuji (Ron) Tsutsui, CEO of WWF Japan made the ...

SHIRAHAMA, Japan (AP) — Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of Shirahama as the… ...