Belgian zoo Pairi Daiza hosts five giant pandas; Hao Hao and Xing Hui since April 2014. Tian Bao was born in Pairi Daiza in 2016; he is the baby of Hao Hao and Xing Hui.
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This means that currently, you can only see pandas in zoos in the US in Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. The pandas at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. are on loan until December 7, 2023. The pandas in Atlanta are on loan through late 2024.
China has lent out 60 giant pandas to 22 zoos, as shown in this Marimekko chart. Twenty-eight of the 60 are in 10 European zoos. Most zoos have 2 or 3 pandas. The zoos with the most pandas are Adventure World in Japan with 6 and Pairi Daiza in Belgium with 5.
Visitors can observe the panda bears undisturbed through large glass windows around the enclosure. The indoor areas are also accessible to visitors through a walkway. Berlin is welcoming to the two future darlings of the public, who are the only giant pandas in Germany after the death of panda male Bao Bao in 2012.
Beauval Zoo in the Loir-et-Cher department has been voted one of the most beautiful zoos in the world. In France it's famous for its giant pandas amongst much else. 35,000 animals from all over the world inhabit the zoo.
The giant pandas left the San Diego Zoo a few weeks ago after the zoo's successful giant panda conservation program with China came to an end. That end meant Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu, the final two Giant Pandas left at the San Diego Zoo, would have to be repatriated to China.
The pandas return to China when they reach old age and any cubs born are sent to China around age 3 or 4. The San Diego zoo returned its pandas in 2019, and the last bear at the Memphis, Tennessee, zoo went home earlier this year.
Red Panda Siddhi has moved from Brno Zoo (Czech Republic) to Zurich Zoo (Switzerland). The one-year-old male Red Panda will soon keep the twelve-year-old female Red Panda Shang company. Shang had been living alone since the death of male Red Panda Liang last year.
With diplomatic tensions running high between Beijing and a number of Western governments, China appears to be gradually pulling back its pandas from multiple Western zoos as their agreements expire.
An article about the economics of keeping pandas says it costs five times more to keep a panda than the next most expensive animal, an elephant. American zoos generally pay the Chinese government one-million dollars a year in fees as part of a typical ten-year contract.
The Berlin Zoo welcomes latest additionsThe time has come: the long awaited panda couple Meng Meng and Jiao Qing has arrived in Berlin. The two Chinese bears are already settling in to their freshly built domicile at the Berlin Zoo.