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Sad News for the Panda World
Chuan Chuan at the Shanghai Zoo 2010. Photo credit: Annette Yuen.
It has come to our attention that the captive breeding program has lost one of its elder pandas. Chuan Chuan, housed at the Shanghai Zoo, has passed away at the age of 30. Chuan Chuan was a wild born panda who fathered Le Le of the Memphis Zoo and Ling Ling of the Chongqing Zoo among many, many others. He was also the grandfather to Hong Kong Ocean Park resident Le Le.

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With only around 290 pandas in the captive breeding program it is an especially hard loss to the species. Pandas International has started a memorial fund in Chuan Chuan’s honor. Join us in celebrating the contributions that Chuan Chuan made to the captive breeding program.

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