Saint-Aignan, France, Nov 25, 2025 (AFP) - France bids farewell to beloved pandas bound for China

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2025-11-25

Two pandas at a zoo in central France were on their way back to China on Tuesday following the female being diagnosed with kidney failure, after hundreds of visitors bid them a final goodbye. Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi arrived at the Beauval Zoo in 2012 as part of China's "panda diplomacy" programme, which sees the black-and-white bears dispatched across the globe as soft-power ambassadors. The two pandas, both 17, were meant to stay in Fr......

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