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    Panda diplomacy: How to see Edinburgh Zoo's giant pandas before they return to China

    by Sian Baldwin Nov 30, 2023 2 minutes

    Edinburgh Zoo visitors have been catching the last glimpses of the famous giant pandas before they are sent back to China. 

    Tian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in Scotland in 2011 but are due to return to their native land.

    The Royal Zoological Society of (RZSS), which runs the zoo, paid an annual fee of $1 million (around £790,000) to China for the . The outlay paid off because, within just a year of their arrival, they had boosted ticket sales by 50 per cent.

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