Shi Shi

Shi Shi is a male giant panda born on 2024-01-01 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is registered as studbook number 1424 in the global giant panda studbook, which tracks individual giant pandas managed under coordinated breeding programs across international and domestic facilities. He is the offspring of Wu Wen and Gu Gu, two adult giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Both of his parents are native to the Min Mountains ecoregion of Sichuan Province, with wild ancestry captured for conservation breeding in the early 2000s. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan Province, he participates in the center’s captive breeding and cub socialization program. This program aims to prepare suitable captive-born giant pandas for potential soft release into protected wild habitats in China. As a young giant panda, Shi Shi displays typical species traits: he spends most of his active hours foraging on bamboo and exploring his enclosed enclosure. Giant pandas like Shi Shi serve as global flagship species for biodiversity conservation, drawing public attention to the protection of old-growth bamboo forest ecosystems in southwest China.