Panda Archive

Xin Rui

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Xin Rui is a female giant panda born on 2014-07-18 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is registered in the global giant panda studbook under individual number 942, and maintains a healthy, stable status as of the latest record from the center. She is the offspring of Gu Gu (studbook 730) and Xi Mei (studbook 724), both captive-bred giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Her lineage fits the managed captive breeding framework developed for giant panda conservation in China. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province, she participates in the center’s coordinated captive breeding program for the giant panda species. The program works to maintain genetically diverse, self-sustaining captive populations of giant pandas for long-term species recovery. As a mature captive-bred giant panda, Xin Rui displays the species-typical trait of feeding primarily on bamboo. She is one of many giant pandas that support public education about giant panda ecology at the center, and contributes to the ongoing success of global giant panda conservation efforts that upgraded the species from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 2016.