The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) will start construction of a home for red pandas in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van Park, in Coloane, in the second half of this year so as to be ready when they arrive from China in 2014.
The construction of the habitat for the red pandas will take six months to complete.
Leong Kun Fong, from the IACM, said officials from Macau visited China´s State Forestry Administration earlier this month and would be able to bring to Macau at least four red pandas.
China´s central government gave Macau in 2009 two giant pandas (black and white, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region, that arrived in the city in 2011.(macaunews)
