Le Pao

Le Pao is a male giant panda born on 2015-07-13 at China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is the offspring of Lin Bing and Wu Gang. Currently living at Everland Resort in Yongin, South Korea, he participates in the international giant panda cooperative breeding program overseen by Chinese and South Korean wildlife conservation authorities. The program supports research on giant panda reproduction and public education about the species. As a healthy adult male giant panda, Le Pao displays typical species traits including foraging for bamboo daily and engaging in territorial scent-marking behavior. He has gained widespread public attention as one of the first giant pandas to reside permanently in South Korea, driving public interest in giant panda ecology. His presence advances global collaborative conservation efforts for the species, which was downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 2016 due to decades of coordinated conservation work.