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Published Date: 05 September 2008
ANIMAL welfare campaigners have voiced fresh opposition to plans to bring a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo.
The Born Free Foundation has written to First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister Gordon Brown urging them not to support the "misguided plan" to import pandas from China.

Will Travers, Born Free chief executive officer, said: "The chances of successful breeding are tiny. The educational value is, at best, superficial."

David Windmill, the zoo's chief executive, insisted: "Increasing numbers of pandas are being born in captivity.

"I do not deny there will be a commercial benefit, but the money we get from visitors coming to see the pandas will be used to support conservation."



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  • Last Updated: 04 September 2008 9:46 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Douglas,

Bathgate 05/09/2008 08:30:48
We laugh at giraffe gaffe.
Not hot for ocelot plot says Scot.

Alarm as caption competition winners write headlines for news pages.
2

Starkravingsane,

Edinburgh 05/09/2008 11:23:29
Provided they get a really fab enclosure, I'd like pandas here.

 

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