Twin giant pandas depart Calgary Zoo, arrive safely in China

After departing from the Calgary Zoo on Friday, twin giant pandas Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue arrived safely at their new home in Chengdu, China over the weekend. Born at the Toronto Zoo in October 2015, the pandas — whose names mean Canadian Hope and Canadian Joy respectively — came to Calgary in March 2018 as part of a 10-year agreement between Canada and China. Caregivers from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding arrived in Calgary last year to help facilitate the plann