China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after a recalling nearly all the iconic bears on loan to U.S. zoos as relations soured between the two nations.
The China Wildlife Conservation Association has signed co-operation agreements with zoos in San Diego and Madrid, and is in talks with zoos in Washington, D.C., and Vienna, the Chinese organization said, describing the deals as a new round of collaboration on panda conservation.
San Diego Zoo officials told The Associated Press that if all permits and other
