Panda Archive

Mei Mei

美美

Mei Mei is a female giant panda born on 2008-08-08 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is recorded in the global giant panda studbook under registration number 874, and is recognized as a healthy, living adult individual by global captive giant panda conservation monitoring programs. She is the offspring of Pan Pan and Xue Xue. Both of her parents are well-documented giant pandas that contributed to the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda’s long-term captive breeding program, which focuses on maintaining genetic diversity for the species. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan, she participates in the center’s controlled captive breeding and public education programs. Her enclosure is designed to mimic the natural bamboo forest habitat that wild giant pandas occupy, to support natural foraging and exploratory behaviors. Mei Mei is known for her calm temperament and high adaptability to captive conditions, which makes her a frequent subject for conservation visitor education. As part of the largest coordinated giant panda conservation program in the world, she supports the global goal of sustaining a genetically diverse captive giant panda population, and helps raise public awareness of giant panda habitat protection efforts across southwestern China.