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00:00 It was his last breakfast in Beauval, in the bamboo forest, as usual.
00:05 Tomorrow, Yuan Man will leave the zoo.
00:07 He saw the day heading to China.
00:09 A great journey for the one who, in six years, became a real star.
00:14 The first panda born in France and sponsored by Brigitte Macron.
00:18 It is now a new career that awaits him at home.
00:21 Faustine Lunau.
00:22 He leaves as he arrived, a real star.
00:28 Yuan Man is about to leave on his ancestors' land tomorrow.
00:33 This morning, he had his last breakfast on French soil,
00:36 in the presence of the Chinese ambassador in France,
00:38 but also many visitors from the park came to say goodbye.
00:42 The t-shirt was made especially for Yuan Man.
00:46 It's all his life, from his birth until today.
00:51 We will miss him because we came for him.
00:53 We will continue to come for the little sisters, but it won't be the same.
00:58 He was the first.
01:00 It will change Beauval a little, that he is no longer there.
01:03 I think it's a shame because he's cute and we saw him grow up.
01:10 I don't know, he was six months old when I saw him the first time.
01:13 And since then, I've been following him.
01:14 As soon as I come to Beauval, the first thing I do is come and see him,
01:18 photograph him, observe him.
01:20 He's really interesting as a panda.
01:22 All the excitement, we realize the importance of the moment.
01:25 An important moment for Beauval, because this is where it all started for Yuan Man.
01:30 On August 4, 2017, Yuan Zai and Wan Wan,
01:34 two giant pandas arrived from China in January 2012,
01:37 gave birth to two little ones.
01:39 One survived, Yuan Man.
01:41 It is the very first panda born in France,
01:43 symbol of a new Franco-Chinese diplomacy,
01:46 but now six years old, the time of departure has sounded.
01:49 Direction the center of Chengdu, where his parents are born.
01:53 He has to leave to reproduce with a female who has no kinship with him,
01:59 because what matters most to us is the conservation of species,
02:02 it is to ensure genetic diversity.
02:05 So Yuan Man cannot reproduce with his mother, with his sisters.
02:09 Yuan Man will make the journey by truck to the Ruoxi airport,
02:13 from where he will take a plane to China.
02:16 Twelve hours of flight in good company, of course,
02:18 since a vet accompanies him,
02:20 as well as Delphine, his nurse since her first days.
02:24 I don't really realize it yet.
02:26 I think it will be more tomorrow and all this trip,
02:29 and more after when we leave him at Chengdu base,
02:32 and that will really be the last day.
02:34 There, we will say that emotions rise slowly.
02:38 A new life for Yuan Man,
02:39 and one more step towards the preservation of species.
02:42 As for his little sisters, who stay in Boval,
02:45 they did not wait to steal the star from him.
02:48 (silence)
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