Last month a rare Siberian tiger was found dead in Heilongjiang, and this month another has been caught on film in the same region. more ›

After several rounds of competition, the Pambassadors have finally been named . In what we think may be the best job opportunity in the world, these winning hardcore panda-lovers will stay at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for one month in Chengdu as part of a project seeking to help the endangered species in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature. more ›

It sure sounds like it! According to the Telegraph, six of these Panda Ambassadors will get to spend this October working at the famous Woolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center - and you could be one of them! more ›

One unbearable side effect to the opening of borders between Russia and China has been the rise in sales of illegal animal parts, says the New York Times. And though tiger bones, deer musk and frogs are smuggled in as well, the most popular item in this underground market is bear paws. more ›

In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of....well, whatever catches our fancy that week. Here we present three ways you can make the night time the right time... to help the environment more ›

So we stumbled upon one of the longer articles we've seen on China Daily lately and it's about... a BBC presenter that doesn't like pandas. Wildlife expert Chris Packham told Radio Times magazine that he reckoned they should “pull the plug... Here's a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac. Unfortunately, it's big and cute and a symbol of the World Wide Fund for Nature and we pour millions of pounds into panda conservation.” After controversy reared its ugly head, Packham apologized for his statements. Oh geez, if people could get Packham to retract his comments, maybe we've got to tone down on our panda hate too. more ›

The Boston Globe has compiled a bunch of much prettier pictures of Earth Hour around the world, including a picture of the banks of the Huangpu River as seen from the Bund. The fun thing about this gallery is that when you click on the pictures, they fades into what the area looked like during the Earth Hour. We realized we have to apologize to the Aurora building - it did in fact turn its lights out. Perhaps the picture by the Earth Hour building was just taken a tad too early. Sorry, Aurora building! more ›

While the Chinese government may not have been quite as turned on about Earth Hour as we may have initially hoped, Shanghai at least gave the movement - which involves turning everything (you can) off for one hour every last Saturday in March - a good try. It switched off the lights at the iconic Pearl Tower and was supported by the ICBC building and several prominent Lujiazui hotels. more ›