“We’re very excited and hopeful,” said Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and vice president of Wildlife Conservation Science. FILE–Bai Yun, one of two giant pandas on exhibit at the San Diego Zoo, looks towards the crowd on Nov. 1, 1996, in San Diego. San Diego sent back its last pandas to China in 2019. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy,File)FILE – Hua Mei, the baby panda at the San Diego Zoo, peeks over a branch while enjoying a bamboo breakfast at the Zoo, on Aug. 15, 2000, in San Diego. The San Diego Zoo continued to work with their Chinese counterparts even after it no longer had any pandas.

Source: CNN February 22, 2024 14:43 UTC