Giant pandas head for the Netherlands, and the bamboo is on order

Two giant pandas destined for a 15-year stay in a Dutch zoo, left China for the Netherlands on Wednesday. The plane carrying the pandas, as well as 200 regular passengers, is due to land at Schiphol airport on Wednesday evening, and the giant mammals, behind sheets of plexiglass, will then be introduced to the Dutch public for the first time. The company Bamboo Giant, also supplies the food from a selection of different types of bamboo, for pandas in Vienna and Edinburgh. ‘Every week the keepers in Vienna and Edinburg send us an overview of what they have eaten and what they have not touched so the menu can be adapted.’ The pandas are accompanied by a keeper and a vet from China who will stay with them for at least three months.