The pandas, both 19 years old, arrived at the Ueno Zoo in 2011. Although their lease is good through 2026, Japan and China agreed to their return home as the aging couple need treatment for high ...

including Japan, France, Britain and Germany, over the next decade. When the panda population dwindled in the 1980s, Beijing stopped gifting pandas but turned to more lucrative short-term leasing ...

Pandas are very cute, but they don't do much for their ecosystem, and they take away a lot of resources from other endangered plants and animals that support multitudes. Following is a transcript ...