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DHL flies male and female pandas from China to breed Finland - with luck
DHL Global Forwarding, a unit of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has flown two giant pandas from Chengdu to Ahtari, Finland, via climate neutral transportation.
The operation was so eco-friendly that measures were taken to see that the carbon emissions for the flight were offset through a climate protection project.
Swissport Finland handled the arrival at the snow-covered Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
"Swissport team is proud to be a part of this. We were delighted to meet Pyry and Lumi. It was an honour to contribute to their smooth arrival," said Swissport Finland chief Tomi Viitanen.
The male panda, aged four, and the female, aged three, arrived at Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Finland on January 18 on their own charter flight.
The journey from the Dujiangya giant panda centre took them first to the Chengdu airport on January 17, from where they were flown 6,500 kilometres to Helsinki on an Iljushin 76 freighter aircraft chartered for the purpose.
They were accompanied by two animal handlers and two veterinary physicians and had a supply of 120 kilogrammes of bamboo on board.
After the official welcoming at the airport, a DHL truck took them to Ahtari, 300 kilometres away in central Finland, where a local "panda carnival" was held at the zoo.
"We're proud to be part of the 'pandastic' journey," said DHL Global Forwarding Greater China chief Steve Huang.
"Offsetting the carbon emissions from the flight of the pandas also highlights the possibilities of carbon neutral shipping options as more companies and organisations choose to GoGreen in their daily operations," he said.
Finland and China signed a 15-year agreement on joint research on giant pandas last spring. Ahtari offers the pandas an environment typical for the species; this will hopefully lead to natural breeding.
The newly constructed Snowpanda house of Ahtari Zoo - including the giant panda's indoor living rooms and an outdoor playing park - occupy some 10,000 square metres and is one of the largest in the world. Experts, who inspected the facility, said it was the best outside China.
The operation was so eco-friendly that measures were taken to see that the carbon emissions for the flight were offset through a climate protection project.
Swissport Finland handled the arrival at the snow-covered Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
"Swissport team is proud to be a part of this. We were delighted to meet Pyry and Lumi. It was an honour to contribute to their smooth arrival," said Swissport Finland chief Tomi Viitanen.
The male panda, aged four, and the female, aged three, arrived at Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Finland on January 18 on their own charter flight.
The journey from the Dujiangya giant panda centre took them first to the Chengdu airport on January 17, from where they were flown 6,500 kilometres to Helsinki on an Iljushin 76 freighter aircraft chartered for the purpose.
They were accompanied by two animal handlers and two veterinary physicians and had a supply of 120 kilogrammes of bamboo on board.
After the official welcoming at the airport, a DHL truck took them to Ahtari, 300 kilometres away in central Finland, where a local "panda carnival" was held at the zoo.
"We're proud to be part of the 'pandastic' journey," said DHL Global Forwarding Greater China chief Steve Huang.
"Offsetting the carbon emissions from the flight of the pandas also highlights the possibilities of carbon neutral shipping options as more companies and organisations choose to GoGreen in their daily operations," he said.
Finland and China signed a 15-year agreement on joint research on giant pandas last spring. Ahtari offers the pandas an environment typical for the species; this will hopefully lead to natural breeding.
The newly constructed Snowpanda house of Ahtari Zoo - including the giant panda's indoor living rooms and an outdoor playing park - occupy some 10,000 square metres and is one of the largest in the world. Experts, who inspected the facility, said it was the best outside China.
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