I heard that the Bronx Zoo is allowed to welcome Giant Pandas sometime in the future from a 2015 article.
Not going to happen (thankfully, in my opinion). The zoo has been very vocal about not wanting Giant Pandas unless the City is willing to pay for their upkeep. The WCS has file an official cease and desist or equivalent for the senator who has been attempting to force the organization to take on pandas, including when she showed up with Chinese delegates at Central Park unannounced. ~Thylo
Besides the unprobability of it all...how does this relate to the post you're quoting let alone the thread?
For future reference feel free to post threads like this is the United States section of the forum, preferably with the Bronx Zoo prefix. Its much more organized and easier to find this way. As far as Bronx getting pandas, let's just say I would be very, very surprised to see pandas coming to any US zoo any time soon.
Hope it doesn't, Bronx would drastically drop in my estimations if it did. They do some excellent ex-situ and in-situ work and I would hate to see pandanomics swallowing up the funding for their existing programmes.
Yes, San Diego lost their Pandas a year ago and China doesn't exactly seem very open to giving them a new contract. Smithsonian was also supposed to lose theirs too but the Pandas had a cub so the loan was extended. Really China and the US haven't been on great terms since 2015 so the reality of any new Pandas coming in at least three years is highly unlikely unless China Panda Diplomacy rules are changed.
