On August 5th local time, the Calgary Zoo in Canada issued an announcement stating that due to restrictions on international travel, the two giant pandas that were planned to be sent back to China in advance are still stranded in Calgary and are facing the crisis of "out of food".
CBC reported
As early as May this year, Calgary Zoo announced that due to the impact of the epidemic, the giant pandas "Big Mao" and "Ershun" will return to China in advance. But the zoo has not been able to obtain an international travel license for giant pandas.
bamboo is only enough to eat until September
brigade plus giant panda "Ershun" Photo source: Canadian Press
Garden introduced in the announcement that 99% of the giant panda diet is composed of fresh bamboo, and each adult giant panda consumes about 40 kilograms of bamboo every day. But since the global pandemic began, changes in transportation have destroyed Calgary’s bamboo supply lines.
Currently, Calgary Zoo can only purchase fresh bamboo from (Canada) BC , and this supply is expected to run out in September.
The Calgary Zoo is currently only able to source fresh bamboo reliably from British Columbia, and this supply is expected to run out in September.
Zoo chief operating officer Greg Royer said in an interview with CBC that the number of bamboo in British Columbia is very limited. Greg Roye, Chief Operating Officer of
Zoo Photo source: CBC
"We are worried that it will be more difficult to find bamboo to get to Calgary to feed pandas."
" Our concern is, as we run out of the supply in British Columbia, it's going to become significantly more difficult to find bamboo to get to Calgary to feed to the animals."
"No one stops the giant pandas from returning home"
Roye emphasized in the interview that no party plays the role of "villain" when it comes to sending two giant pandas back to China. Roye said the Chinese government is also trying to find ways to bring pandas home.
"No one wants to stop two giant pandas from returning to China," Royer said, "but there are many people involved in this (return to China) process."
"Nobody is trying to stop the pandas from going home," Royer said...but there’s a lot of people involved.
At present, due to the new crown epidemic, the two giant pandas are also in "quarantine" and are not exhibited to the outside world.
According to the agreement between China and Canada, Ershun and Damao arrived in Canada in 2014 and would have lived in Calgary until 2023.
After learning about it, netizens expressed their concerns about
"heartache" and "I hope I can go home as soon as possible"
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