On Monday, officials said that a pair of giant pandas will soon travel from China to the US, where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as part of an ongoing conservation partnership between the two nations. The announcement came months after a panda family housed at the Smithsonian National Zoo since 1972 returned to China and just before the Atlanta Zoo’s surviving panda family is scheduled to return to China next year. According to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, their caregivers visited China to meet the giant pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, before their planned trip to southern…