Editing Red panda (section)

=== In captivity ===
[[File:Red panda eating bamboo at Symbio Wildlife Park.webm|thumb|Red panda at [[Symbio Wildlife Park]]|alt=Video of captive red pandas standing on a tree and eating]]

The [[London Zoo]] received two red pandas in 1869 and 1876, the first of which was caught in [[Darjeeling]]. The [[Calcutta Zoo]] received a live red panda in 1877, the [[Philadelphia Zoo]] in 1906, and [[Artis Zoo|Artis]] and [[Cologne Zoo]]s in 1908. In 1908, the first captive red panda cubs were born in an Indian zoo. In 1940, the [[San Diego Zoo]] imported four red pandas from India that had been caught in Nepal; their first litter was born in 1941. Cubs that were born later were sent to other zoos; by 1969, about 250 red pandas had been exhibited in zoos.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jones, M. L. |year=2021 |chapter=A brief history of the Red Panda in captivity |title=Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda |editor=Glatston, A. R. |pages=181–199 |edition=Second |publisher=Academic Press |place=London |isbn=978-0-12-823753-3 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-823753-3.00026-0|s2cid=243805749 }}</ref> The [[Taronga Conservation Society]] started keeping red pandas in 1977.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lewis, M. |year=2011 |title=Birth and mother rearing of Nepalese red pandas ''Ailurus fulgens fulgens'' at the Taronga Conservation Society Australia |journal=International Zoo Yearbook |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=250–258 |doi=10.1111/j.1748-1090.2011.00135.x}}</ref>

In 1978, a [[breed registry]], the ''International Red Panda Studbook'', was set up, followed by the Red Panda [[European Endangered Species Programme]] in 1985. Members of international zoos ratified a global master plan for the [[captive breeding]] of the red panda in 1993. By late 2015, 219 red pandas lived in 42 [[List of zoos in Japan|zoos in Japan]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Tanaka, A. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Ogura, T. |year=2018 |title=Current husbandry situation of Red Pandas in Japan |journal=Zoo Biology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=107–114 |doi=10.1002/zoo.21407|pmid=29512188 }}</ref> The [[Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park]] participates in the Red Panda [[Species Survival Plan]] and kept about 25 red pandas by 2016.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kumar, A. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Rai, U. |author3=Roka, B. |author4=Jha, A. K. |author5= Reddy, P. A. |year=2016 |title=Genetic assessment of captive red panda (''Ailurus fulgens'') population |journal=SpringerPlus |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=1750 |doi=10.1186/s40064-016-3437-1 |pmid=27795893 |pmc=5055525 |doi-access=free}}</ref> By the end of 2019, 182 European zoos kept 407 red pandas.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kappelhof, J. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Weerman, J. |year=2020 |title=The development of the Red panda ''Ailurus fulgens'' EEP: from a failing captive population to a stable population that provides effective support to in situ conservation |journal=International Zoo Yearbook |issue=1 |volume=54 |pages=102–112 |doi=10.1111/izy.12278 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Regional captive breeding programmes have also been established in North American, Australasian and South African zoos.<ref name="Introduction2022"/>