A zoo in Finland has agreed with Chinese authorities to return two loaned giant pandas to China more than eight years ahead of schedule because they have become too expensive for the facility to maintain amid declining visitors.

A zoo in Finland has given up two giant pandas because they have become too expensive for the facility to maintain amid declining visitors. The private Ahtari Zoo in central Finland said on its Facebook page the female panda Lumi,

Two pandas are heading back to China eight years early amid lower-than-hoped-for visitor numbers at a zoo in rural Finland, and after the pair didn’t produce a cub.