text:  This time, to focus on scientific exchange. Basically, the rules that the zoos had to contribute to conservation and research. And that's the model still operating today. It revolved around one goal. Save the pandas. As panda diplomacy was ramping up, pandas were endangered due to poaching, bamboo die-offs, logging, habitat destruction, and even from China sending them as diplomatic gifts since those pandas were bear-napped from the wild.