The Atlanta zoo will return its 4 pandas to China late this yr, the ability introduced Friday, within the newest chapter of a program typically labeled “panda diplomacy.”
The mother and father and their twins have been the one large pandas in the USA since November, when the Nationwide Zoo in Washington returned three of the bears to China in a transfer that some noticed as an ominous signal of deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Chinese language governments. China owns and leases all large pandas in U.S. zoos.
