Chinese Government provides 2 pandas to Taman Safar Indonesia for 10-year period

On February 28, 2014 a Chinese Embassy official in Indonesia, Liu Hongyang, pledged that the Chinese Government would grant a pair of pandas to Indonesia. Then, on September 28, 2017, two, 7-year old pandas from Chengdu, the capital of south-west China's Sichuan province, arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (on a 10-year breeding loan). The bears were to live in a 4,800 square meter panda park at Taman Safari Indonesia in Bogor within West Java province. The park is located 1,700 meters above sea level to ensure the pandas are at a similar altitude to their hometown. In exchange, the Government of Indonesia reportedly offered to share with China its knowledge of breeding Sumatran tigers.

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A breeding loan is a type of barter transaction. It usually involves the transfer of a breeding animal to mate with another animal, and the return of a proportion of the progeny as well as the return of the original breeding animal to the supplier/lender.

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