Giant Panda

This file picture taken on August 3, 2010 shows a Chinese zookeeper playing with a giant panda at the Chengdu Panda Base centre in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province. The Chengdu Panda Base centre and the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) have launched 'Project Panda,' on August 17, and a global search for six people who would spend a month looking after the endangered animals, as part of an awareness and conservation campaign.




Zhen Zhen, a three-year-old panda at the San Diego Zoo celebrates her birthday with a cake made of ice and bamboo on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 in San Diego.



A giant panda plays at the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, on August 3, 2010. There are only 1,590 remaining pandas in the wild, mostly in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, as another 290 are in captive-bred programmes worldwide, mainly in China, according to official reports.




Yun Zi, the youngest panda at the San Diego Zoo, eats a birthday cake made of ice, bamboo and apples to celebrate his first birthday at the zoo in San Diego, California, in this picture taken and released to Reuters on August 5, 2010.



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