From China, two enormous pandas arrive at the San Diego Zoo
As part of an ongoing conservation cooperation, two giant pandas from China have arrived in Southern California and will be cared for, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance announced on Friday.
The alliance said in a brief statement that Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, the pandas, will not be seen to the public for many weeks as they adjust to their new home in a private habitat at the San Diego Zoo.
The alliance claims that they are the first newborn pandas to reach the United States in twenty-one years. The Washington National Zoo declared in May that by the end of the year, it will also be getting two more pandas from China.
“They are being monitored closely by expert wildlife health and care teams who will determine when the pair are ready to meet the public,” the group stated.
Before the pandas left China earlier this week, a farewell ceremony was organized.
Yun Chuan is a well-mannered male who is almost five years old, and the wildlife alliance has stated that he had ties to California. In 2007, at the San Diego Zoo, his mother Zhen Zhen was born to Bai Yun and Gao Gao.
About four years old, Xin Bao is a girl who is characterized as “a gentle and witty introvert with a sweet round face and big ears.”
With a nearly 30-year history, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has partnered with China’s top conservation organizations to safeguard and restore giant pandas and the bamboo forests that support them.
Since 1972, the China Wildlife and Conservation Association has been providing pandas to the United States as part of a deal known as “panda diplomacy.”
Two pandas were brought to San Diego for a 100-day visit in 1987. However, a 12-year agreement was eventually negotiated, and two pandas, Bai Yun and Shi Shi, were brought to San Diego in 1996. Six pandas were born in the zoo as a result of the agreement being repeatedly extended. By 2019, all of them have gone back to China.
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