A video of the pandas returned to China is expected on Chinese websites and the country’s social media in the coming days.
13:41•Updated 13:55
BEIJING The pandas returned to China from Ähtäri at the end of last week are getting used to the time difference and their new environment. They are doing well, is told by the Chinese Wildlife Protection Association, which is responsible for the protection of the pandas.
The 11-year-old male panda Pyry and the year-younger female panda Lumi were flown from Ähtäri to China at the turn of the week. The animals are kept in quarantine at the Beichuan Panda Center in Sichuan Province, southern China. The quarantine is expected to last about a month.
Conservation Society said at the end of last week on the Weibo platform that pandas had arrived in China. The transport flight from Finland to China included both the pandas’ Finns and their future Chinese caretakers.
The Wildlife Protection Association is expected to post videos of them on its website and Chinese social media in the coming days.
Snow has regained his Chinese birth name, Jin Bao Bao. Pyry is now Hua Bao. Jin Bao Bao can be translated into Finnish as “crumb of gold” and Hua Bao as “flower bud”.
The largest panda parks in China are located around the city of Chengdu in Sichuan.
The authorities have not said in which animal park the pandas will be placed later and at what point the public will possibly be able to see them.
Lumi and Pyry have been in Finland for just under seven years. They were returned to China because Ähtäri Zoo could no longer afford to keep them.