National Panda Day, 16 March 2025

This National Panda Day, learn more about this vulnerable species and what you can do to help them.

Adopt a panda

On this day we celebrate Pandas!

To coincide with National Panda Day, we’d like to invite you to get to know more about this amazing species. We've got some simple and fun ways to show your support; from learning more about pandas, to baking a panda cake!

Wild Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), female, in Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan, China

Giant Pandas - A lasting legacy

The giant panda is perhaps one of the most recognisable symbols when it comes to conservation, with a rich history substantiating this fame.

Step back into the 1980s and wild giant panda populations are dwindling. We now know this was largely due to habitat loss and fragmentation, alongside other human-driven pressures. Conservationists didn’t fully understand the cause of this decline at the time, blaming bamboo flowering (natural die off) and questioning the giant panda’s ability to breed in the wild. An urgent question needed to be answered if we were to save the endangered giant panda. If the bears were left to their own devices, would they survive?

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