Tag: panda

Volunteers tackle invasive Japanese bamboo problem in Scotland with help from Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas

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Ruaraidh Gilmour - January 21, 2022

THE Woodland Trust are tackling an invasive Japanese bamboo problem in Scotland by enlisting the help from Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas. Local volunteers last week filled...

Edinburgh Zoo hoping to have giant panda lease extended by summer

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Kirsty Stewart - April 21, 2021

EDINBURGH Zoo is hoping to extend the lease on their giant pandas by summer. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said they “very much”...

Chinese government airmailed “high quality panda semen” to Edinburgh Zoo in bid to produce 2018 cub

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Kirsty Stewart - April 20, 2018

EDINBURGH Zoo chiefs received an airmail delivery of panda semen from China in a desperate bid to produce a cub. Tian Tian has failed to...

Edinburgh Zoo keeper under investigation over social media post saying that police are “dirty pigs”

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Kirsty Stewart - September 1, 2017

A KEEPER at Edinburgh Zoo is being urgently investigated over social media posts which called police "dirty pigs" and discussed the sexual attraction of...

Zoo’s panda boss confirms Tian Tian IS definitely pregnant – but no cub today

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Kirsty Stewart - August 25, 2017

EDINBURGH Zoo bosses have officially confirmed that Tian Tian, the UK’s only female giant panda, is definitely pregnant. Iain Valentine, Director of Giant Pandas at...

Edinburgh’s giant panda was artificially inseminated two months ago, zoo reveals

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Kirsty Stewart - May 12, 2017

EDINBURGH Zoo panda Tian Tian has been artificially inseminated after coming into season at the earliest time since arriving in Scotland. As a result, zoo...

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