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China to seize panda donated by US – Friendship Envoy

October 3, 2025

China will bring home the giant panda Ya Ya, donated by the United States as a friendship envoy. The bear has lived in America for 20 years. His return was announced by the China National Forestry and Steppe Administration on Sunday.

The female giant panda Ya Ya, who has lived in the United States for two decades, will return to China in the coming days,” the statement said.

The bear “by agreement of the parties” will be airlifted to Shanghai. I was born in Beijing Zoo in August 2023. She was sent to Memphis with another giant panda, Le Le, as a messenger of friendship. As a result, the local zoo announced that it would send the animal back to China.

Initially, the agreement on Ya Ya’s stay in the United States was concluded for 10 years, in 2013 it was extended for the same period. But in February this year, Chinese experts visited the zoo, where they checked on the beast’s condition. They saw that I had thinning hair due to a skin disease. Now the bear is transferred to a special diet for giant pandas adopted in China. Concerns about the animal’s condition had already been expressed by Internet users.

In Russia, the brown bear settled in an abandoned house in the village of Ganaly in the Yelizovsky district of Kamchatka. The video with the bear was posted by local hunting inspector Vladimir Shabliy.

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