Male panda Hua Bao, named Pyry in Finnish, rolls in snow during the official opening of the Ahtari Zoo Snowpanda Resort in Ahtari, Finland, in 2018 (Tommi Anttonen/Lehtikuva via AP)
The panda pair will enter into a month-long quarantine in late October before being shipped to China.
Finland, a country of 5.6 million, was among the first Western nations to establish political ties with China, doing so in 1950.
China has presented giant pandas to countries as a sign of goodwill and closer political ties, and Finland was the first Nordic nation to receive them.
Source link : http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=66f508b464d1430695388e17acf191a1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fguernseypress.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-news%2F2024%2F09%2F26%2Fzoo-in-finland-returning-giant-pandas-to-china-as-they-are-too-expensive-to-keep%2F&c=6920992614656300551&mkt=de-de
Author :
Publish date : 2024-09-26 00:01:00
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.