Here are the nominated candidates for the Audience Award Giant Panda Best Friends Award 2019. Support your favorite and give them your vote.

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• Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (China)
  12 newborn pandas 2018. Since the founding of the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in 1987, the Foundation has done an outstanding job of protecting the Great and Red Pandas, Tigers and other rare species in natural biology and research. It is the research base at the highest level of technical development in China and world renowned for the protection and conservation of the Great Pandas and other rare and endangered species.

• Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation (China)
  The Foundation supports the release of Giant Pandas. The organization provides resources for the conservation, breeding and exploration of endangered and rare species.

• China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
  The organization is committed to preserving and expanding the habitat of the Great Pandas, to the conservation of nature and the environment, to the reintroduction of the Great Pandas into the wild, to the sick and old Great Pandas, who dignity and care in Ya ‘and Dujiangyan live.

• Dr. Eveline Dungl, Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria
  With the action “Yang Yang paints 100 pictures”, the publication of the illustrated book “PANDAS – A Success Story from the Tiergarten Schönbrunn” was supported.

• Daniel Zupanc (kiko publishing house), Austria
  With the idea of the crowdfunding campaign for the book
  “PANDAS- A success story from the Tiergarten Schönbrunn”

• Ami Vitale (USA)
  With her book: “Panda Love: The secret lives of pandas”, and the German edition; ” Pandas: Das verborgene Leben der großen Bären”

• CCTV project ipanda.com
  For the worldwide success with the internet platform ipanda.com.
  For over 5 years, Giant Pandas can be watched live here. GPFIN is the German partner with the website ipanda.com.de. >> Introduction

• Zoo Berlin, Germany
  For the commitment to show Giant Panda back in Germany. Since June 2017, Meng Meng & Jiao Qing live in the Berlin Zoo
  >> Introduction

• Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria
  The only zoo in Europe that has managed to breed this species naturally. The rearing of Fu Feng and Fu Ban is a sensation: For the first time a panda mother raises her twins without human help.

• ZooParc de Beauval, Saint-Aignan, France
  For success in Giant Panda rearing.

• Madrid Zoo, Spain
  For success in Giant Panda rearing.

• Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland
  For the implementation of the project Panda Cam. Here you can see live the two Giant Pandas living in the Zoo: Yang Guang (M) and Tian Tian (F).

• Zoo Pairi Daiza, Brugelette, Belgium
  For success in Giant Panda rearing.
  In the Chinese garden, the two giant pandas Hao Hao and Xing Hui can be watched and Tian Bao, her cub, born in Pairi Daiza, be admired.

• Ouwehands Diierenpark Rhenen, Netherlands
  For the Giant Panda engagement. Since April 2017, two Great Pandas (Wu Wen (F) & Xing Ya (M) live here and delight the public.

• Ähtäri Zoo, Finland
  In January 2018, the Giant Panda couple (Huabao and Jin Baobao) from China arrived in Finland. Finland and China are celebrating a 15-year partnership to better protect and preserve the endangered animals. >> Introduction

• Zoo Atlanta, USA

• Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Washington, USA

• Toronto Zoo, Canada

• Calgary Zoo, Canada

• San Diego Zoo, USA
  For more than 25 years of commitment to the conservation of the Giant Pandas, the success of breeding and his support in the breeding program in China

• Pandas international, USA
  Suzanne Braden has been working with her organization for the Giant Pandas in Wolong since 1999. In 2014/2015, when the Giant Pandas became infected with the distemper virus, Pandas International quickly provided a significant amount of vaccine to the local Chinese partner.

• Jeroen Jacobs for the involvement of Giant Panda, Belgium
  Since 1987 he is interested in giant pandas. Jeroen is the founder of GiantPandaGlobal.com and patron of the eponymous award. For the fifth time he organizes the award ceremony for panda protection work in China and abroad. Panda experts and fans from around the world can vote on their website for their favorite pandas, people and institutions. The site contains historical facts, visitor information and panda news. The first edition of the website was put online in 2000 and later renamed GiantPandaZoo.com. The current concept called GiantPandaGlobal.com was launched in 2016. (Source: giantpandaglobal.com)

• Prof. Zhang Hemin, “Panda Dad” for Lifetime Achievement, (China)
  He is known as the daddy of the Giant Pandas and since 2001 head of the Wolong Nature Reserve Administration. He studied biology at the University of Sichuan in 1983, when the Giant Pandas faced a food crisis. The bamboo flourished in many areas and died. Dr. Zhang immediately took care of the problem, set off for Wolong and started to rescue hungry Giant Pandas. At that time, there were only 10 Giant Pandas in the area. Dr. Today, Zhang Hemin is one of the key people to carry out the program to reintroduce the Giant Pandas into the wild in China.

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