Goodbye Yang Guang and Tian Tian! Britain's only giant pandas fly back to China after 12 years in Edinburgh
by Lucinda Cameron
Dec 04, 2023
3 minutes
The UK’s only giant pandas left Edinburgh for China on Monday afternoon after spending 12 years in Scotland.
A plane carrying the two Edinburgh Zoo pandas, Yang Guang and Tian Tian, took off from the city's airport shortly before 2pm.
Yang Guang and Tian Tian came to in 2011 as part of a 10-year agreement between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and the China Wildlife Conservation Association, which was later extended by
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