Edinburgh Zoo’s popular giant pandas are set to leave Scotland this morning - 12 years to the day after arriving in the Capital on 4, December 2011.<br /><br />Pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian will travel back to their home in China with their head keeper Michael Livingstone.<br /><br />The charismatic bears were the UK’s only giant pandas and have been incredibly popular with visitors at the zoo - and in turn have helped raise vital funds for wildlife conservation.<br /><br />Originally brought over as part of a 10-year arrangement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association, it was later extended by two years owing to the pandemic.<br />
