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SAN DIEGO (NewsNation) — The San Diego Zoo is acceptable to uncover 2 giant pandas Thursday successful a infinitesimal of historical diplomacy betwixt the U.S. and China.
Yun Chuan and Xin Bao arrived from China successful June, marking the archetypal clip a Chinese panda has been sent to the U.S. successful implicit a decade.
Yun Chuan, a mild-mannered antheral astir 5 years old, has connections to California, the Wildlife Alliance said previously. His mother, Zhen Zhen, was calved astatine the San Diego Zoo successful 2007 to parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao.
Xin Bao is simply a astir 4-year-old pistillate described arsenic “a gentle and witty introvert with a saccharine circular look and large ears.”
The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has a astir 30-year concern with starring conservation institutions successful China focused connected protecting and recovering elephantine pandas and the bamboo forests they beryllium on.
Decades aft Beijing began moving with zoos successful the U.S. and Europe to support the species, the fig of elephantine pandas successful the chaotic has risen to 1,900, up from astir 1,100 successful the 1980s, and they are nary longer considered “at risk” of extinction but person been fixed the safer presumption of “vulnerable.”
China’s elephantine panda indebtedness programme has agelong been known arsenic a instrumentality of Beijing’s soft-power diplomacy, but its conservation value could person been an important crushed Beijing is renewing its practice with U.S. zoos and sending caller pairs of pandas during different sour relations.
The Associated Press and NewsNation affiliate KSWB-TV successful San Diego contributed to this report.
