Panda Archive

Hua Bao

华豹

Hua Bao is a male giant panda born on 2017-07-10 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is registered as studbook number 1071 in the global giant panda breeding registry, which tracks individual pedigrees and population demographics for the species. He is the offspring of Tu Lin (studbook 934) and Wu Wen (studbook 847), both adult giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the time of his birth. His birth was part of a coordinated captive breeding program managed for species recovery. Currently living at Ahtari Zoo in Finland, he participates in the zoo’s public conservation education programming and long-term captive management plan for giant pandas. His housing at the facility is part of a bilateral giant panda research cooperation agreement between China and Finland. As a subadult giant panda, Hua Bao displays species-typical foraging behaviors, spending roughly 10 to 12 hours daily consuming bamboo. He is a major draw for domestic and international visitors to Ahtari Zoo, raising public awareness of giant panda conservation threats, including habitat fragmentation in his native Sichuan range. Captive individuals like him support ongoing research into giant panda biology that informs wild population protection efforts.