It was only around five weeks ago that we met with them Giant pandas Yang Yang and Yuan Yuan absolute crowd favorites from the Viennese Tiergarten Schönbrunn passed away in order to spend her retirement as planned in her homeland of China.
The successors don’t take long to arrive: Im first half of 2025 Two young pandas are supposed to come from China, Economics Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP) reported on Monday from a business trip to the “Middle Kingdom”.
The Panda-Valley nahe Chengdu was part of the route. “It was a special experience for me to visit the Panda Valley in Dujiangyan during the economic mission to China, which serves to promote Austria as a business location, and to be able to see the giant pandas here,” said Kocher in a press release.
When are the pandas coming to Schönbrunn?
There is no exact time for the arrival of the animals yet: “When the renovation and expansion work on the panda enclosure in Schönbrunn is completed,” most likelyoh in the first six months of next yearit said. It is not yet clear which two copies will make the journey to Vienna.
According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, there are around 1,000 in zoos and breeding centers worldwide 730 giant pandas. Schönbrunn Zoo has been one of these institutions since 2003 and, in cooperation with the China Wildlife Conservation Association, is committed to protecting and preserving giant pandas and their habitat.
The collaboration was recently extended by ten years. The Giant pandas on loan to zoos are also used internationally “Panda Diplomacy” designated. There are research stations in and around Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. Here, pandas would be raised in a protected environment before being returned to the wild to boost the natural population or loaned to suitable zoos around the world.
Giant pandas: cooperation between China and Austria
“The giant pandas in Schönbrunn Zoo are not only the absolute favorites of the public, but also a strong symbol of species protection and constructive cooperation between Austria and China,” emphasized Kocher. “The breeding successes and research work on giant pandas have made the zoo known far beyond the country’s borders,” said the Secretary General of the Ministry of Economics, Eva Landrichtinger.
(Agencies, eh, agencies)
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