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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-13-10 02:41 AM
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Japan to rent pandas from China
Giant pandas are to make a return to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo after the Japanese capital agreed to rent a pair from China for $1m (£640,000).

The money will be used to fund panda conservation projects and rebuild a sanctuary damaged in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province.

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said the price was high but the city had managed to secure a $50,000 discount.

Ueon zoo's last giant panda, a male named Ling Ling, died in 2008.

Mr Ishihara said he had received "strong requests" from people around Japan who wanted to see pandas at the zoo again.

"Pandas are endangered and everyone loves them," Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted him as saying.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8512979.stm
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-13-10 04:58 AM
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1. Would BoA care to rent Butterstick and his new girlfriends?
Just to clean up their image?
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