- Title: GERMANY: LONELY PANDA BAO BAO OF BERLIN ZOO GETS PROSPECTIVE MATE
- Date: 14th April 1995
- Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (APRIL 14, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION -ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/PAN MEN CONSTRUCTING INTERIOR PANDA CAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. SV MALE PANDA BAO BAO IN ADJOINING CAGE 0.13 3. SLV CAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION/SV PANS BAO BAO WALKING IN CAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.29 4. SV PLANE ON AIRPORT TARMAC/VARIOUS OF CONTAINER WITH FEMALE PANDA, YAN YAN, BEING LOADED OFF PLANE (3 SHOTS) 0.51 5. SV MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES, PHOTOGAPHERS 0.55 6. SV CONTAINER BEING LOADED INTO VAN 1.01 7. SV SPECTATORS/VARIOUS OF YAN YAN EXPLORING NEW CAGE/ MEDIA (4 SHOTS) 1.41 8. SV CROWDS WATCHING/YAN YAN EXPLORING CAGE (2 SHOTS) 1.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
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- Country: Germany
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- Story Text: Berlin zoo's lonely giant panda Bao Bao got a prospective mate on Friday (April 14) in the form of Yan Yan, a female panda sent on a five-year loan by Beijing zoo.
Yan Yan, accompanied by Berlin's mayor Eberhard Diepgen, landed at a part of Berlin's Tegel airport reserved for foreign dignitaries.
Bao Bao had been seeking a mate for the notoriously difficult business of breeding cubs in captivity since his long-time partner Tien Tien died of a virus infection in 1984.
Yan Yan's arrival has filled the pages of the capital's newspapers for days and one radio station has collected 58,000 United States (U.S.) dollars in donations for the bears.
But the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) criticised the loan.
International accords on protecting endangered species stipulate only those born in captivity can be exported.
Yan Yan was found in the wild apparently abandoned at the age of three months in 1985.
Environmentalists also say she may not really have been abandoned, since it is not uncommon for panda mothers to leave their young for days at a time while they hunt for food.
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