San Francisco’s New Zoo CEO Isn’t the Change the Zoo Needs
Why the Zoological Society’s CEO pick shows how little is actually changing.
SF Zoo Watch
Demanding accountability at the SF Zoo—for the animals, the workers, and all of us.
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New York Times Panda Investigation
As China Seeks Influence, It Has a Cuddly Way Into City Hall: Pandas
Records and interviews show that Beijing has used pandas as leverage to shape policy on Taiwan and to cultivate relationships with local U.S. politicians.
U.S. Zoos Gave a Fortune to Protect Pandas. That’s Not How China Spent It.
A Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely.
Want to Rent a Panda? Here Are 5 Things China Demands in Return.
Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements.
The Panda Factories
In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into nature. It hasn’t gone as planned.