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Lei Lei

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Lei Lei is a female giant panda born on 2021-06-23 at Ueno Zoo. She is registered as studbook number 1301 in the global giant panda studbook system, which tracks the genetics and demographics of the captive giant panda population managed for conservation. She is the offspring of Li Li (studbook 649) and Shin Shin (studbook 522). Her parentage was selected as part of a coordinated giant panda breeding program to maintain genetic diversity within the captive population. Currently living at Ueno Zoo, she participates in the zoo’s public education programming and the coordinated global giant panda conservation breeding initiative led by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. As a young captive-bred giant panda, Lei Lei draws consistent public attention as a major attraction at Ueno Zoo, helping raise public awareness of giant panda conservation. Her birth is part of ongoing international collaborative efforts to protect this vulnerable species, supporting research into giant panda behavior and breeding that informs in-situ conservation work in China’s Sichuan Province.