My home zoo! This should perhaps have been my first post to write, because I’m from Edinburgh, so these are my ‘home pandas’ as such. Pandas arrived in Edinburgh in 2011 on a 10 year loan from CCRCGP – most of their stay in Edinburgh has already passed, and there are less than two years left unless a new deal is made to keep them on. The above picture is the original outdoor space in the panda enclosure – in 2019 a new enclosure was built, further up the hill in the zoo and in a more secluded area with more space outside. Below you can see the space under construction and Yang Guang’s yard completed. The pandas moved into their new home in the Summer of 2019, so they’ve been there for almost a year now.
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