. That said zoo director’s job Robin the Long Wednesday. China puts a lot of demands on the stay of the animals in Rhenen, the netherlands and the takes longer than foreseen for all optimal for each other.
Marcel Debates, owner of the Ouwehands, signed in October last year after fifteen years of further discussions and an agreement with the Chinese Wildlife Association about the arrival of the pandas, Xing Yu and Wu Wen. ,,When everything had still to start,” says Long. ,,We hoped for a year to be ready but although all goes well, it takes more time.”
Ouwehands builds, together with Chinese construction workers to a home and a country retreat for the heavily protected animals. These are expected to be at the end of november ready. Then come Chinese pandadeskundigen twice to inspect if everything is in order. As soon as the property has got the green light, there must be a transportplan to be made. China determines when the bears go on a journey. The pandas arrive in a special aircraft.
Ouwehands get the pandas for up to fifteen years to borrow. Worldwide, the giant pandas but in eighteen zoos to see. The beasts live in the wild only in China and although they recently formally no longer are threatened with extinction, the panda is still as vulnerable.
Ouwehands hopes that there is a small pandaatjes, but that is not easy. Giant pandas have nothing of each other, except on the three days per year that the female is fertile. Travel should be a possible young, after four years, returned to the pandacentrum in the Chinese Wolong.
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