Panda Archive

Zhao Yang

朝阳

Zhao Yang is a male giant panda born on 2018-06-25 at China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is registered under studbook number 1121, with official Chinese name 朝阳, and remained in healthy condition as of the latest documented updates. He is the offspring of giant panda studbook 700 and giant panda studbook 980. No public record of alternative public names for his parents has been released by affiliated conservation bodies as of current documentation. Currently living at Beijing Zoo, he participates in the zoo’s giant panda public education and ex situ conservation monitoring programs. He was transferred to Beijing Zoo on June 25, 2019, his first birthday, as part of a coordinated captive giant panda population management plan. He displays typical juvenile giant panda foraging and play behaviors, and is a core draw for visitor conservation education at Beijing Zoo, raising public awareness of giant panda habitat protection in China’s Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu mountain regions. His inclusion in the managed captive population supports genetic diversity maintenance for the vulnerable giant panda species.