French first lady Brigitte Macron, considered the panda’s “godmother,” did not attend Saturday’s celebration. She has already gone to see the baby panda twice.
PARIS: France’s first baby panda celebrated his first birthday Saturday with a cake of bamboo, honey, apples, oranges, strawberries and lemons.
In Europe, Austria, Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Finland currently have giant pandas.
There are about 2,000 giant pandas in the world. They are classified as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The pandas were introduced to the zoo in 2003. Their names are Yang Yang and Long Hui.Giant Panda Yang Yang：male, born on August 10, 2000. Father, Da Di & mother, Ying Ying.Giant Panda Long Hui：female, born on September 26, 2000 and died on December 10, 2016.
The giant panda is China’s national treasure, a unique species of China, but the giant pandas does not accept the definition of state or national boundaries that made by human beings.
And this is the reason why the giant panda protection association protect giant pandas across border in regions with important ecological significance. Only in this way, our next generation can have the chance to see the lovely pandas as we do.
At first, the panda cub preferred to play with his mother before tasting the cake while visitors used their phones to record every move of the ceremony’s star.
The panda named Yuan Meng which means “accomplishment of a dream” weighs about 30 kilograms (66 pounds). He has recently started eating bamboo while still suckling milk from his mother, Huan Huan.
For the occasion Saturday, the Beauval Zoo south of Paris was open for free to all visitors born on Aug. 4.Yuan Meng’s mother and father Yuan Zi are at Beauval on a 10-year loan from China aimed at highlighting its good ties with France.
