The food expenses for giant pandas cost 7 million yuan a year. As a result, Canada could not afford to raise them and had to send them back to China in advance. This is really a big mistake! This video will reveal to you how expensive the national treasure panda is?

The panda is our country’s national treasure that everyone loves. It is not only popular at home, but also popular abroad. Every country is begging China to lend pandas to them, for no other reason than Foreigners like pandas too much. Among them, Japan is so obsessed with pandas that it is difficult to get a ticket to the zoo. On average, each visitor to the zoo can only see pandas for 1 minute.

Of course, the cost of raising such an expensive panda can be said to be ridiculously high, because pandas are national treasures in our country and are also a symbol of our culture, so pandas will only be loaned to Some countries that have relatively friendly relations with China.

Among more than 200 countries in the world, 17 countries have successfully leased giant pandas from my country. In addition, many countries are constantly applying to my country, but we Renting a panda is definitely not free, either.

It is understood that the rent for leasing a pair of pandas is approximately between 3 million and 7 million yuan per year.

This is just the "entry fee" for breeding pandas. After leasing pandas in other countries, special places will be arranged for them to rest and entertain. However, after leasing pandas in Singapore, In order to make the pandas live comfortably, a giant panda pavilion was built in the Singapore River Ecological Park at a cost of 43 million yuan.

In order to ensure that the giant pandas can grow up healthily, the food they eat must be the freshest. The bamboo shoots they eat every day have to be flown directly from China, and only organic vegetables and fruits are eaten. . Nearly 100 kilograms of bamboo and bamboo shoots are consumed every day.

According to statistics from the North American Panda Conservation Foundation, the annual cost of raising giant pandas alone exceeds more than 1 million US dollars, which is more than 7 million yuan. You can imagine how much money giant pandas burn.

Some countries cannot afford to raise them and send them back in advance, while other countries are rushing to rent them. Will leasing giant pandas from China cost money or make money?

Giant pandas are sought after by many foreign countries around the world. However, due to their high annual rent and breeding costs, Canada had to return the giant pandas two years in advance. But even so, there are still many Countries are vying to lease our country's giant pandas.

Of course, Canadian officials did not explicitly say that they cannot afford to raise giant pandas, but said that due to the epidemic, they cannot import fresh bamboo from China and cannot guarantee the normal diet of Da Mao and Er Shun.

Of course, in addition to this reason, the zoo cannot make ends meet due to the epidemic and cannot make money. Naturally, it cannot afford to raise giant pandas, so they have no choice but to "repatriate" the giant pandas.

Do giant pandas really make foreign zoos lose money?

In fact, this is not the case. Although foreign zoos have to build some infrastructure for the activities and survival of giant pandas, and at the same time spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, according to relevant data, pandas bring a lot to a country. The benefits far outweigh the cost of raising it.

We all know that the Japanese people are quite fanatical about giant pandas. Even if they get tickets to see giant pandas, everyone only has about 1 minute to watch the giant pandas, but even if In this way, it is difficult to resist the Japanese people's love for giant pandas. According to statistics, the panda Xiangxiang leased by my country to Japan has brought economic benefits of 53.9 billion yen to Japan. Equivalent to RMB 2.6 billion, one can imagine how great its economic benefits will be.

In the two years since the introduction of giant pandas to the Edinburgh Zoo in the UK, the number of visitors has increased to 4 million, with an average of more than 500 people coming to the zoo every day. In addition, the entrance fee to the zoo previously cost 20 euros, and to see the giant pandas Panda costs an additional 18 euros.

Other countries spend tens of millions of yuan to rent Chinese giant pandas for just one year, just because it can bring more considerable economic benefits, so why can pandas be firmly ranked as the "biggest brother in the zoo" Where is the throne?

The first and most important point is of course that the appearance of the panda is very cute and cute. I believe that many friends want to hug and touch the panda at the first sight. Touch it, and the pursuit of cute things is a common characteristic of almost all human beings, so it is not surprising that people all over the world like such naive and docile giant pandas.

In addition, the panda is very unique. We all know that the panda is actually a member of the Ursidae family, but it is a vegetarian bear with a bear-like body shape and a herbivore. With such a gentle heart, anyone would want to find out. At the same time, one thing that is very strange about pandas is that they are six-toed animals, while almost all animals in nature have five toes.

Secondly, the giant panda has existed on the earth for at least 8 million years. It has been active on the earth as early as the Ice Age. It can be said that it is an absolute living fossil of animals.

In addition to the above reasons, there is another very worrying reason, that is, the number of giant pandas is actually very small.

Globally, there are only 2,286 giant pandas in total, including 1,864 wild giant pandas and 422 captive giant pandas. Things are rare and valuable, so pandas with such a rare number will naturally be more lovable.

Of course, looking at the entire natural world today, there are many wild animals with fewer numbers than giant pandas. Although we have increased our efforts to protect the environment of these animals in recent years, there are still deficiencies. , so we also need to contribute our own efforts so that future generations can see various wild animals with their own eyes.