Today, giant pandas are one of the world's most well-known animals. And they are
The idea of the WWF's logo(标志)
Aware of the need for a recognisable symbol that would break through all language barriers(障碍), WWF's founders agreed that the big, furry bear with her special black and white coat would make a great logo. The first sketches(草图) were done by the British environmentalist and
Based on these, Sir Peter Scott, one of WWF's founders, drew
The panda has since become a symbol not just for WWF,
During the World Elephant Day on Thursday, Chinese and foreign experts gathered in one online forum(论坛)
The 15 wild Asian elephants among
Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, mentioned an idea which focused
Zhang Chenglin, Deputy Director of the Beijing Zoo,who introduced some measures taken by Chinese zoos to take good care of elephants,
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Washington DC is the nation’s capital, and the chance to move there
As we
DC has one of
Therapy dogs are dogs that are trained to give comfort to people in unfortunate situations. The story of the first therapy dog is
In the 1970s, Elaine Smith, an American nurse, started a program to train therapy dogs. Smith noticed patients in hospitals seemed to recover much
Today, therapy pets are used to help many different people with problems. For example, they help children with reading difficulties by
An ocean park in Qingdao, Shandong Province, announced on Wednesday that it had artificially bred (繁殖) seven loggerhead sea turtles. The seven young turtles, each
The loggerhead is a species of
Currently, the seven young turtles are being
According to a new report by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the deadly heat waves, floods
Global warming refers to the fact that the earth's atmosphere is warming near
One popular theory relates to the “greenhouse effect”. Gases that make up the atmosphere are similar to
While scientists agree that human-produced compounds (化合物) like carbon dioxide and others are being released into the atmosphere, some argue it's not clear how this results
Global warming can
A male elephant that broke away from the wandering elephant pack
Yuxi City headquarters in charge of monitoring the pack's migration (迁徙) took the
The pack of 15 wandering wild Asian elephants travelled about 500 kilometers north from their forest home. The male elephant separated from the pack on June 6, and moved around in the
Asian elephants are
As we all know, the pollution of air, water and soil are the most serious problems. The
The world's oldest known wild bird is a 70-year-old albatross (信天翁)
The Midway Atoll (环礁)
In 1956, when Wisdom was about five, she was banded by a scientist, Chandler Robbins. In 2002, when Mr. Robbins returned to Midway, he was
Albatrosses normally have just one partner. But Wisdom has lived so long
Wisdom laid her most recent egg in late November of last year. Since then, she and Akeakamai had taken
Now Wisdom and Akeakamai are keeping busy,