CHENGDU, Jan. 17 -- A pair of giant pandas have departed a panda base in Sichuan Province bound for Finland on a 15-year research project.
The pandas will leave Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 6 a.m. Thursday and arrive in Helsinki, capital of Finland, at 10 a.m. Thursday local time, according to China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.
A send-off for the pandas was held at the center's Dujiangyan base on Wednesday morning. In attendance were Finnish ambassador to China Jarno Syrjala, base staff and Sichuan forestry department officials.
Brought up in the base, the male Hua Bao is four and a half years old and the female Jin Baobao is three years and four months.
During their flight, they will be accompanied by a keeper and a veterinarian from Dujiangyan.
"The two pandas have big appetites and eat 40 kilograms of bamboo every day," said keeper Huang Shan.
The flight's "meal service" includes 120 kilograms of bamboo, and 30 kilograms of bamboo shoots and carrots.
The two pandas' new home is in Ahtari zoo, Finland's largest wild zoo.
Located in central Finland, the zoo has spent three years building a luxurious panda house for the two pandas. At a cost of about 8.2 million euros (10 million U.S. dollars), the panda house covers 6,000 square meters.
The pandas' five Finnish keepers and veterinarians have been to China to prepare the pandas for Finland.
"It will snow in winter in Finland, similar to the native habitat of pandas," said Jukka Salo, director of Ahtari zoo.
Ahtari zoo has signed a 10-year deal with a Dutch agricultural company that will provide 22 different kinds of bamboo.
The two pandas have been given Finnish names. Hua Bao will be known as Pyry (snowfall) and Jin Baobao has been named Lumi (snow).
Their original Chinese names will be preserved, but the zoo wants the newcomers to have Finnish names that will be easy for Finns to remember.
During the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Finland last April, China and Finland signed an agreement on joint research program. China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda has research ties with 15 zoos in 13 countries, and 34 pandas are currently overseas.
A total of 18 panda cubs have been born abroad, with 12 returned to China.
牛津版小学六年级英语课件My schoolbag let us talk A
牛津版小学六年级英语课件My schoolbag let us chant
六年级英语下册课件Unit2 What's the matter,Mike
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let us sing a song
2012年福建漳州三中中考英语模拟试题及答案
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let is Sing Teddy bear
2012年上海浦东新区中考英语二模试题
牛津版小学六年级英语课件ping-pong and basketball
牛津版小学英语六年级上册 Unit 5课件部分2
2012年福建三中分校中考英语模拟试题及答案
六年级英语上册Unit13 I'm as happy as a bird课件
新目标七年级英语上册Unit7课件
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let us play a game
牛津版小学六年级英语课件How to plant a tree
2012年北京市通州区中考英语二模试题及答案
2012年北京市丰台区中考英语二模试题及答案
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let us act
牛津小学英语六年级上册Unit1课件
小学英语六年级上册Unit8课件
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let me play baseball
沪教版牛津小学六年级英语课件6AMy home m2u2_3
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let is paint Let us learn B
沪教版牛津小学六年级英语课件6AMy home m2u2_4
2012年福建厦大附中中考英语模拟试题及参考答案
沪教版牛津小学六年级英语课件6AMy home m2u2_2
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let us sing Father and mother
上海版七年级英语上册 unit4 Reading课件
牛津版小学六年级英语课件playing basketball
牛津版小学六年级英语if you are happy1
牛津版小学六年级英语课件Let is paint Listen and circle
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |