24/7 LiveRaleighDurhamFayettevilleSurrounding Area

Latest 7-day forecast

Keep WTVD On the Air!

Live Updates

Drought tracker

Lindsey Graham dies

FIFA World Cup

ABC11 Hurricane Special

NC Made

Submit a News Tip

ABC Price Tracker

ABC11 Together

Panda

Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' group says

  • Nov 14, 2024
Roshan Patel/Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute via CNN Newsource

China's new panda diplomats touch down in DC

  • Oct 15, 2024
Roshan Patel/Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute via CNN Newsource

China's newest panda diplomats headed for Washington

  • Oct 15, 2024
Zoo Atlanta via Storyful

Atlanta bids final farewell to giant pandas on special plane

  • Oct 14, 2024

Pandas from China make official public debut at San Diego Zoo

  • Aug 8, 2024

San Diego Zoo releases 1st video of new pandas from China

  • Jul 19, 2024

See 1st photos of new pandas at San Diego Zoo

  • Jul 9, 2024

1st pair of pandas to enter US in 21 years take off from China

  • Jun 27, 2024

Latest Videos

0:40

Rare Red Panda cub born at zoo in UK

  • Aug 20, 2022
0:19

World's oldest male giant panda dies at age 35

  • Jul 21, 2022
0:44

Panda tumbles from limb at National Zoo, climbs back up

  • May 10, 2018
0:29

Play with me! Baby panda tries to stop keeper from working

  • Mar 30, 2018

Latest Stories

2 more giant pandas to arrive in California at San Diego Zoo: Here are their names

A deal to send a second pair of pandas from China to California is now official. And we have their names!

  • Apr 30, 2024
Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File

San Francisco Zoo to receive giant pandas from China, Mayor Breed announces

For the first time in decades, San Francisco will receive giant pandas from China as part of China's Panda Diplomacy program. Mayor Breed shared the news on X Thursday night.

  • Apr 20, 2024
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

2 giant pandas are moving to San Diego Zoo in a rare loan from China

China is sending two giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo - the first time it has granted new panda loans to the United States in two decades under a program known as "panda diplomacy."

  • Feb 22, 2024

Xi Jinping hints China could send new pandas to US as 'envoys of friendship'

Chinese leader Xi Jinping suggested Wednesday China could send new pandas to the United States, calling them "envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples," in the latest gesture aimed at easing fraught ties between the two powers.

  • Nov 17, 2023

3 giant pandas at Washington DC's National Zoo head back to China, ending more than 50 year program

Pandas that are part of China's loan program are meant to serve as an envoy of friendship between China and the host country, so the fading program in the United States may indicate a diplomatic shift.

  • Nov 8, 2023