Pandas to return to Washington, DC

On May 29, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC, announced that it will receive a pair of giant pandas from China by the end of the year. The news comes six months after the National Zoo sent giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China when the agreement to host them expired. “We can’t wait to celebrate this historic moment, here in our nation’s capital,” First Lady Jill Biden said in a video announcing the agreement. National Zoo director Brandie Smith, who also appeared in the video, said the pandas are one of the zoo’s “biggest conservation success stories.” China is the only natural habitat for giant pandas, and there are fewer than 1,900 living there in…

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