Bamboo Fund

$1 per box, since March 2025

Every box of Piqiu you buy sends $1 to the giant panda at Ningbo Wildlife Park. That is the whole program. Since March 2025 it has added up to $5936 toward 7,968 pounds of bamboo.

Our shop is inside the park

Since March 2025, we have run an incense workshop inside Ningbo Wildlife Park itself, a short walk from the panda house.

panda incense & Ningbo Wildlife Park Opening day at the park, March 2025.

Follow the sign. That's us.

along with partner incense and ingredient

This is not a distant sponsorship. The people who spend your $1 are the keepers we see at work. If you are ever in Ningbo, come check both.

The pandas your $1 feeds

The park has two giant pandas, both sisters, both born in Sichuan in 2015 and at home in Ningbo since 2018.

Yajun is the lively one. About 240 pounds, always moving, favorite hobby: making her keepers chase her. Ajie is the calm one. About 290 pounds, currently on a vet-supervised diet, favorite hobby: lying down. Between them they eat their way through more than 30,000 pounds of bamboo a year, which the park buys fresh from local growers.

you are helping pandas at ningbo yonger zoo

Yajun (left) and Ajie(right). Photo from: Ningbo Wildlife Park

What the $1 covers

Two things only: buying fresh bamboo, and the daily cost of feeding the pandas. We don't spread it across vague "operations." One dollar in, bamboo out.

The record

We post what we send, every quarter.

Quarter	Boxes sold	Sent to the park
2025 Q1 (from March)	309	$309
2025 Q2	894	$894
2025 Q3	1006	$1006
2025 Q4	907	$907
2026 Q1	863	$863
2026 Q2	1085	$1085
2026 Q3	936	$936

Questions people ask

1. Why $ $1 an d n o t m ore ?$

$W e se t t h e n u mb er w h ere w e c an k ee p i t f ore v er w i t h o u t r ai s in g p r i ces . A p ro g r am yo u c an t r u s t a t $$ 1 is worth more than one we abandon at $5.

2. Why only boxes of Piqiu series?

The program started with that panda refined bamboo fiber, which is the key ingredient of these incense products. If we extend it to other products, we'll say so here, with the date.

3. Can I visit the pandas?

Yes. Ningbo Wildlife Park is open to the public, and our shop is inside.