ATLANTA (GPB News) — Zoo Atlanta recently announced that the newly named giant panda habitat, the Arthur M. Blank Panda Grove, is set to open on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026.
The habitat will house male Ping Ping and female Fu Shang, who arrived at the zoo Sept. 27, 2026, through a new International Cooperative Research Agreement on Giant Panda Conservation, initiated between Zoo Atlanta and the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
The pandas arrival makes Zoo Atlanta one of three zoos in the U.S. to house giant pandas and the only one in the Southeast to do so…