No. 47 Officials in Southwest China will give two giant pandas to representatives of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Chinese officials say the male and female pandas will leave the Woolong Nature Preserve in Sichuan Province Wednesday. Officials say the National Zoo will pay 10 million dollars for the giant pandas. The zoo will keep the pandas for 10 years. Only about 1,000 pandas remain in the wild. Giant pandas are only found in protected areas of western and central China.