The two-year-old male (pictured) and one-year-old female giant pandas are
currently in China's panda reserve in Wolong in Sichuan province. They each
have a twin sibling, which Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) hopes will enhance
their chance of reproducing when they get here. -Lim Wei Chean, The Straits
Times
The pandas will make their public debut in 2012 when WRS' new $140 million
river themed animal attraction, the River Safari, opens. Pictured here is the
female.
MOU signing ceremony on Nov 12 for the Agreement for Collaborative Conservation
and Research of Giant Panda between PRC's China Wildlife Conservation
Association and Singapore's Wildlife Reserves Singapore. [Back row from left]
Chinese President Hu Jin Tao, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Teo Chee
Hean with [front row] Sec-Gen of China Wildlife Conservation Association Yang
Bai-Jin exchanging the official documents with MsClaire Chang, chairman of
Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
Singapore in 2011 will receive two giant pandas from China, a milestone in the
countries' bilateral relations. Only seven nations, including Singapore, have
received Chinese pandas since 1994 - gestures that are symbolic of close ties
between China and the receiving country, the Straits Times said. Pictured here
is Tuan Tuan, which was given to Taiwan in 2008, and now resides in the zoo in
Taipei.
Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were sent as a gift from China to Taiwan in December
2009 to symbolise the rapidly improving relations across the Straits.
Pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, whose names together mean "reunion" in Chinese,
walk around inside their enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo.
Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan eat bamboo leaves inside their enclosure at the Taipei
City Zoo. In a "panda-monium", thousands of children and parents eagerly came
to meet the two pandas in January this year, on the first day of the Chinese
Lunar New Year, after a month-long quarantine.
Pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan.
Pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan.
Pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan.
