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- San Francisco Zoo has entered into a historic agreement with China to host giant pandas, emphasizing the importance of panda conservation.
- The agreement marks a significant event in China-US relations and animal conservation efforts.
TFD – In a historic agreement, San Francisco Zoo is set to welcome giant pandas from China, marking a significant milestone in animal conservation efforts. Explore the details of this groundbreaking initiative and its impact on panda conservation.
Mayor London Breed has announced that gigantic pandas will be sent from China to live in the zoo in San Francisco for the first time.
A media statement issued by the city on Friday said, “The memorandum of understanding signed by Mayor Breed and the (China Wildlife Conservation Association) this morning is the first official leased agreement for Giant Pandas to have residency at the San Francisco Zoo.” “As part of a global tour, the San Francisco Zoo temporarily housed giant pandas from China in 1984 and again in 1985.”
CNN earlier claimed that China had declared in February that it would be sending two gigantic pandas to the San Diego Zoo, which would be the first time it had given new loans for pandas in the US in 20 years.
“It’s an honor that our City has been chosen for the first time to be a long-term home for Giant Pandas,” Breed said in a statement. “San Francisco is absolutely thrilled that we will be welcoming Giant Pandas to our San Francisco Zoo.”
The announcement was made only a few months after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China send fresh pandas to the US as “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples,” specifically to the San Diego Zoo.
His comments came last year, shortly after the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D,C sent its three pandas back to China – marking the end of more than 50 years of Chinese pandas being housed at the zoo. With the National Zoo’s program coming to an end, Zoo Atlanta was the only other US zoo with pandas on display. The National Zoo was the first zoo in the US to do so.
Since Beijing gave two of the bears to the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1972, pandas have functioned as a kind of unofficial gauge of US-China relations. after US President Richard Nixon’s momentous visit to China to break the ice.
The World Wildlife Fund labels giant pandas as vulnerable and estimates that there are less than 2,000 of the species left in the wild.
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