Panda Archive

Xue Xue

雪雪

Xue Xue is a female giant panda born on 2014-08-15 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. She is registered as studbook number 944 in the global giant panda studbook, which tracks individual captive pandas for coordinated population management. She is the offspring of Ba Si and Guo Qing. Both of her parents were captive-bred giant pandas at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, with her mother holding studbook number 641. Currently living in the wild, she participates in a reintroduction program managed by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. The program focuses on releasing captive-bred giant pandas into protected native habitats to supplement existing wild populations. As a reintroduced giant panda, Xue Xue adapted to foraging for wild bamboo and establishing a home range in the Min Mountains of Sichuan, China. Her release contributed valuable data on captive-bred panda survival in wild habitats, supporting ongoing giant panda conservation efforts that have helped downlist the species from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.