Panda Archive

Feng Xing

风星

Feng Xing is a female giant panda born on 2022-09-25 at the Fuping Giant Panda Wild Training Base. She is registered as studbook number 1372 in the national giant panda conservation registry maintained by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is the offspring of Gu Gu and Xian Nu, both wild-born giant pandas native to the Qinling Mountains. Her lineage belongs to the Qinling giant panda subspecies, a genetically distinct population separated from the Sichuan giant panda population for over 10,000 years. Currently living in the Fuping section of the Qinling Mountains, she participates in the natural population monitoring program run by the Shaanxi Qinling National Park. Conservation teams track her movement and foraging behavior via non-invasive infrared camera surveys to assess wild population recovery. As a wild-born Qinling giant panda, Feng Xing displays natural foraging and ranging behaviors typical of her subspecies, feeding primarily on local Qinling bamboo varieties. She contributes to the genetic diversity of the small, fragmented wild Qinling giant panda population, supporting long-term population resilience for this vulnerable species under China’s national giant panda conservation framework.