She hadn’t shown her face since the night from Wednesday to Thursday. A tree having fallen on her fence, Shanti, a female red panda housed at the Terres de Nataé animal park in Pont-Scorff (Morbihan), had disappeared into the wild following the passage of storm Ciaran. After several days of searching, the animal was finally found this weekend. “Huge relief! » reacted on Sunday on Facebook the animal park, which had until then voluntarily decided not to communicate about this disappearance “to avoid people trying to find it and scaring it”.
Safe and sound, the red panda has therefore found his congeners Boni and Taïka. “Currently all warm in the veterinary clinic for a short observation period, they will soon find their forest” within the animal park, said the Terres de Nataé teams. Closed for several days, the Breton zoo was devastated by the storm, with damage amounting to between 50,000 and 100,000 euros.
To help the teams restore the site to its original state, an online prize pool has been opened. She has so far raised nearly 60,000 euros. Throughout this weekend, the animal park was also able to count on the support of around a hundred volunteers, who took turns clearing and cleaning. “The word solidarity still has meaning in 2023,” says Sébastien Musset, founding president of Terres de Nataé. This is probably what is the strongest and most moving. »