Giant panda · A bamboo specialist whose WWF logo, Wolong quake and 2016 IUCN downlist from EN to VU made a recovery into a brand.
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The panda that informed the WWF mark.
Chi-Chi (London Zoo / logo, United Kingdom) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Logo as a second skin.
WWF (1961-, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Associated Press · Public domain
Nixon-era National Zoo pair.
Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (1972-90s, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Sheilalau at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Breeding centre wrecked and rebuilt.
Wolong National Nature Reserve (quake 2008, China) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Ruth Elizabeth Harkness · Public domain
Living-export origin story.
Ruth Harkness (1936 Su Lin, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Kreisverkehrsampel · CC BY-SA 3.0
The public cub factory.
Chengdu Research Base (captive hub, China) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Zhou Guanhuai · CC BY-SA 4.0
Corridor experiment.
Giant Panda National Park (2020s, China) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Diplomacy as a zoo calendar.
Smithsonian National Zoo pandas (loans, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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VU can be honest and still leave a species one bamboo die-off from a worse card.
Captive births are visible. Gene flow between mountain blocks is the quieter need.
Asia largest cat whose subspecies map, 1973 Project Tiger and remaining 4,000-odd wild animals define a century of recovery arithmetic.
Overall 62 🦁A social pantherine whose prides, Gir relic and 2015 Cecil killing still structure African conservation politics.
Overall 66 🐘The atlas type is the bush elephant -- an ecosystem engineer whose ivory ban (1989) and split from forest elephants still structure African conservation.
Overall 61 🐺A Holarctic pack hunter whose 1995 Yellowstone return and older Leopold ethics still structure predator politics.
Overall 78 🐻A marine bear whose seal-and-ice budget made Churchill, Knut and climate models into one public animal.
Overall 56 🦍The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name.
Overall 45 🐋The largest animal whose 1966 IWC protection, 1982 moratorium and still-thin Antarctic recovery define a hunted giant.
Overall 65