Zoo's panda plan panned
ANIMAL welfare campaigners have voiced fresh opposition to plans to bring a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo.
The Born Free Foundation has written to First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister Gordon Brown urging them not to support the "misguided plan" to import pandas from China.
Will Travers, Born Free chief executive officer, said: "The chances of successful breeding are tiny. The educational value is, at best, superficial."
David Windmill, the zoo's chief executive, insisted: "Increasing numbers of pandas are being born in captivity.
"I do not deny there will be a commercial benefit, but the money we get from visitors coming to see the pandas will be used to support conservation."
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