National Panda Day Timeline

2015

More pandas

The State Forestry Administration released the results of the Fourth National Giant Panda Survey, showing that the population of wild giant pandas had increased by 268 to 1,864 over the last decade.

1961

WWF

The World Wide Fund for Nature was formed, creating their logo around the Panda

1957

An adorable gift

A total of 24 pandas are given to foreign countries from China as gestures of peace.

April 1929

A Roosevelt game

The Roosevelt brothers become the first foreigners to shoot a panda.