Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Singapore's 2 New Pandas!

On the 6th of September 2012, A Singapore Airlines Cargo B747 touched down at Singapore Changi airport.
Its passengers- 2 giant Pandas from Sichuan, China!

At precisely 3.20pm on Wednesday, Kai Kai and Jia Jia were driven out of the Ya'an panda base - a place they had called home all their lives.
Kai Kai's Chinese name is Wujue and Jia Jia's original name was hubao, the pandas are on a ten year loan to Singapore. 

Wujie is a 5 year old male and Hubao is a 4 year old female, the pandas will be available to be viewed by the public in December once they have adapted to their new environment. and Hubao will be renamed Jia Jia, the pandas are on a ten year loan to Singapore. 
Home for them for the next 10 years will be the River Safari attraction in Singapore, and they arrived at Changi Airport today after a flight of about 4 1/2 hours.
Airside crew securing the cage holding Jia Jia who was loaded after Kai Kai on board the Singapore Airlines cargo plane at the tarmac of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport Cargo Terminal. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
The freighter used to transport the pandas
Before they embarked on a new phase of their lives here, Kai Kai, aged five, and Jia Jia, aged four, received a send-off yesterday, with song and dance performances put up by the residents of the city of Ya'an in China's Sichuan province, where the pandas are from. Confetti was fired into the air and some 500 guests lined the road leading out of the base to bid the pandas a warm farewell.
Jia Jia, twists the stalks of bamboo shoots with her paws pulling out its leaves with her teeth. The 4-year-old female panda is one of the 2 pandas bound for Singapore on Sept 6, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
Jia Jia
Among them were Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan, chairman of Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) Claire Chiang and Chinese government officials, including the Communist Party secretary in Ya'an, Mr Xu Meng Jia.
Kai Kai, a five-year-old male panda, will be in Singapore along with four-year-old female Jia Jia on Sept 6, 2012. The pandas are on loan to Singapore from China. Before their flight, they were quarantined for a month and kept in an enclosure away from the other pandas at their base in Ya’an Bifeng gorge in Sichuan province. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
Kai Kai

60 guests which included Mr Teo Ser Luck, Minister of State (Trade & Industry), chairman of Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) Claire Chiang, and former President S.R. Nathan, chairman of CapitaLand Hope Foundation.
The pandas which were on board a chartered Singapore Airlines flight touched down at the Jet Quay CIP Terminal of the Changi Airport just after 8.20am.
About 30 minutes later, before the guests - which included government officials from MTI and corporate sponsors CapitaLand - two crates were lowered from the plane, and opened to unveil Kai Kai and Jia Jia.
Cr: Straits Times for the pictures
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