Good morning, thank you
for joining us. I’m Ulfa Maya. This is Today News, for Saturday, November 4nd 2017. We’ll bring you the up to the minute
news to keep you informed every mornings. We are going to start the news with
Two giant pandas arrive in Indonesia and ready for public viewing.
Two giant pandas, Cai
Tao and Hu Chun, arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang,
Banten, after a five-hour flight from Chengdu, China, on Thursday 28 September
morning. The seven-year-old pandas received a warm welcome from
Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya and the Chinese Embassy’s chargé
d'affaires, Sun Weide.
Siti said she hoped the "dating couple," on loan to Indonesia
for the next 10 years, would breed soon.
"The pandas are now seven years old meaning that they are already
teenagers. They live on average for up to 30 years," Siti said at a press
conference at the Garuda Indonesia cargo terminal on Thursday. "We hope
next year they can get 'married' and have kids."
Siti said if a panda
baby is born it would stay at the Taman Safari zoo, Cisarua, Bogor, West Java,
for two to three years before being returned to China. They must be
returned to preserve the gene pool, Siti said. Meanwhile, Sun said he
believed the pandas, deemed a national treasure in China, would live happily in
Indonesia.
The breeding loan was
initiated after a conservation agreement between China and Indonesia that
involved PT.Taman Safari Indonesia and the China Wildlife Conservation
Association in Guiyang in August last year.
A month after
arriving from China, the pandas ready for public viewing. giant pandas Hu Chun
and Cai Tao seem to be adapting well to their new home in the mountainous area
of Cisarua, Bogor, West Java. Hu Chun — a female — confidently displayed her
belly while enjoying an abundant supply of bamboo. Meanwhile, Cai Tao, a male,
spent the afternoon doing nothing but sleeping with one paw covering his face.
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