First giant panda born in France heads to China, given warm farewell

STORY: First giant panda born in France heads to China, given warm farewell DATELINE: July 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the giant panda leaving France 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): MARILYS, Visitor 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): DAMIEN, Visitor 4. various of the giant panda in the zoo 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): RODOLPHE DELORD, Beauval Zoo's general director 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): DELPHINE POUVREAU, Manager of the koala and panda division, Beauval Zoo STORYLINE: Yuan Meng, the first giant panda born in France, has left the country for China. He represents an "absolutely unbreakable friendship" between the two countries, said French first lady Brigitte Macron. She saw him off at the airport. Visitors at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, central France, gathered Tuesday morning to bid farewell to Yuan Meng ahead of his departure back to China, 10 days before the giant panda's sixth birthday. Waving flags with Yuan Meng's photos, his fans were queuing in the cold

CHINA-GUANGZHOU-SPRING FESTIVAL-KOALA (CN)

CHINA-GUANGZHOU-SPRING FESTIVAL-KOALA (CN)

(230117) -- GUANGZHOU, Jan. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 17, 2023 shows koala "Taotao", a member of the first generation in a koala family at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. The total of 66 koalas from a family in seven generations living at the park made a public appearance to greet their fans before the Spring Festival. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan - A female koala named Tilly is shown to the public at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. Tilly is a gift from Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first koala's arrival in the Japanese zoo.

Australia's diverse genetic koala to help save local population

STORY: Australia's diverse genetic koala to help save local population DATELINE: March 31, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:55 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the koala 2. SOUNDBITE (English): STEVEN JOHNSTON, Associate Professor, University of Queensland's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences STORYLINE: A koala with diverse genetics could turn around the fate of endangered koala colonies along Australia's east coast, researchers from the Living Koala Genome Bank pilot program said. Jagger is the first koala to be bred as part of the pilot program, led by the University of Queensland, and was introduced to the public on Tuesday. The koala has been released into a colony at a conservation park on the Gold Coast, with the hope to improve the genetic diversity of the population in the long term. Researchers said as Jagger is now in a new wild population, it will bring new genetics into that population to help improve the genetic makeup of the population that researche

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan - A female koala named Tilly is shown to the public at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. Tilly is a gift from Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first koala's arrival in the Japanese zoo. (Kyodo)