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Amazing Asian Animals
Red pandas
Open since late April in Hong Kong, Amazing is finished in 2012/13, taking Ocean Park to a new
anchor new
Asian Animals is the first major new attraction to level as a world-class theme park of the next
open as part of Ocean Park’s HK$5.5 billion generation.”
Ocean Park
(US$710m/Euro.186508m) Master Redevelopment The flagship feature of Amazing Asian Animals is
Project Giant Panda Adventure, home to four red pandas,
attraction
an endangered species on loan to Ocean Park from
T
he 25,000 square metre new area comprises Chengdu city in the Sichuan Province of China. The
eight animal exhibits, a bird theatre, a walking building is also home to the park’s breeding pair of
trail, two classrooms and a selection of high end giant pandas, Ying Ying and Le Le and, it is hoped,
retail and food & beverage facilities. their future family. Also sharing the habitat are Chinese
“Ocean Park embarked on the Master salamanders, alligators and the world’s smallest Asian
Redevelopment Project in 2006 to bring in new small-clawed otters, plus turtles and birds.
offerings and refresh current assets,” notes the park’s The Giant Panda Adventure Building is also an
CEO, Tom Mehrmann. “The completion of Amazing attraction in itself as it is Hong Kong’s only domed
Asian Animals is only the beginning. As we continue structure fully-covered with a ETFE (ethylene
with our redevelopment, we will expand Ocean Park’s tetrafluoroethylene) exterior, a material that allows the
Tai Shan the Red Panda attractions from 35 today to over 70 when the project total spectrum of ultra-violet light to permeate
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